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Southern Pacific Cab Forward No. 4294

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was interested in a steam locomotive that could go through tunnels and snowsheds in the mountains without choking the crew on its smoke. The SP chose the cab-forward configuration, which turns the engine around so that the cab and firebox are at the front, while the smokebox and funnel are at the back. The SP cab-forward engines were fired by oil, which was carried from the tender to the firebox in insulated pipes. The last and largest of these engines was AC-12 ("articulated cab forward type 12") class 4-8-8-2 No. 4294, built by Baldwin in 1944 as the final Southern Pacific steam engine. It is preserved at the California State Railroad Museum in California next to C.P. Huntington, the first SP steam engine.
Image size
3648x2736px 1.81 MB
Make
NIKON
Model
COOLPIX S550
Shutter Speed
27027027/100000000 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
800
Date Taken
Mar 13, 2012, 10:31:54 AM
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If you visit the CSRM in the future, you will be able to have a seat in the cab and let your thoughts run away with you for a moment. Railroading was a tough business but to feel the rumble, power and to hear this locomotive in action once again would be the epitome of West Coast railroading on the SP.