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Mover helper lagrande or3/8/2024 and a more capable relief engine was added for the run west: 4-8-4 #3760. That day, the Super Chief came limping into La Junta with boxcabs 1A and 1B assisted by, not a high-stepping 4-4-2, but a lowly local freight hog with 69-inch drivers: 2-6-2 #1105:Īt La Junta, the spraddle-legged Prairie was pulled off as mechanical men fussed about the diesels. You might be thinking of the series of photos that Otto Perry captured on Januaround La Junta, CO, which appeared on pages 44-45 of Santa Fe's Early Diesel Daze and pages 70, 71, and 74 of The One-Spot Twins. > some publication that burned in forest fire. > availble to help quickly was a 4-4-2 and it did help as much as possible. > Once when the first SuperChief Engines had a breakdown east of Trinidad the only steamer It was probably also taken in 1940-41, as other negatives in the set show unrestored funeral streetcar Descanso freshly installed in her display site near the depot. Here's one more undated, unattributed view from the Western Railway Museum Archives showing 1468 helping a 4-8-2 on an eastbound passenger train at Summit, CA at the top of Cajon. of Cajon: A Pictorial Album has a Tom Hotchkiss photo of 1468 acting as helper ahead of 4-8-2 #3748 on a train of heavyweights on the pass at Pine Lodge "ca.1940." The second photo in this old thread shows 1468 coupled ahead of a 4-8-4 at San Bernardino, apparently about to play helper once again: Dale Worley captioned thus: " In as unlikely a shot as one might hope to see, this long-legged, slippery dowager of an Atlantic pits what modest low-speed lugging power she has against the grades of Cajon with "The Chief" and No.3768 in tow." ![]() ![]() of Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail has an undated Herb Sullivan photo of the engine that author E. It appears to have spent most of the 1940's in California, where it was often photographed pulling local passenger trains between San Bernardino and Los Angeles.Īround 1940, however, Santa Fe evidently decided to find out how well a 4-4-2 with 79-inch drivers and 22,200lb of tractive effort would work as a helper for passenger trains heading up Cajon Pass. Santa Fe 4-4-2 #1468 was one of the last Atlantics on the railroad when it was retired in 1948.
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