2926 moves under steam.
(!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gO_s0qcloc
Not very far… yet.
Not very fast…yet.
But the promise is oh, so there. As is the quilling.
Yeah baby! [bow]
Thanks for shaing!
That is a massive 4-8-4.
4-8-4s are all big locomotives, but those 2900s are massive, and the 8-axle tender makes them even more so.
At 119’ 11" in total length, they were within 5 feet of the SP Cab-Forward 4-8-8-2 classes, the C&O H-8 2-6-6-6, and the NP Z-5 2-8-8-4.
That’s super!
The size and power of Santa Fe’s 4-8-4’s and 2-10-4’s goes a long way in explaining why Santa Fe never went back to articulated designs after the misbegotten freaks of the 1910’s and 1920’s.
I’m trying to recall. Did Santa Fe call their 4-8-4’s Northerns or a different name?
They called them by their class numbers: 3751, 3765, 3776, and 2900. I think I’ve seen a couple of references to their wheel arrangement being ‘Northern type’ but I don’t have cites. They certainly didn’t have their own proprietary name for the wheel arrangement, as so many other roads did.
Thx, Overmod.