Steam & Excursion > ATSF 2-6-2 1139 in Dodge City

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) Prarie 1139 sits on display at the Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City, KS, in the afternoon of Friday, June 28, 2019.
According to good sources, ATSF 1139 was built in 1903 by Baldwin as a 2-6-2 Prarie, builders number 21506, ATSF 1050 class, 4-cyl. Vauclain compounds, simpled 1910-22.

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Steve Sloan
San José, CA
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About my sources and the information presented here:

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Amazing the big 16" Baldwin builders plate is still on the engine.

Great photos. 
Bob

See also: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4852164,4852332#4852332

Gerry

Jacket still on it too and it looks in fair shape.

The Santa Fe must have been using the 2-6-2s in local (branchline?) service at the end of the steam era? On the Wabash they were very unsuccessful locos that came as freight and passenger versions. They couldn't keep them on the track at high speed, particularly on substandard track. AFIK, What few were left, they were all off the roster before WWII. Sadly, the Wabash invested heavily in them from various builders in the early 1900s. The CB&Q and the Milwaukee had them too, IIRC.

Victor



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/21 22:08 by wabash2800.

There are a number of them displayed in that area, odd to see that many of that wheel arrangement saved.

Out 

That tall, stubby tender wears a badge plate on the end indicating it was built for 4-4-2 #1464, a locomotive that was actually six years newer than 2-6-2 #1139 but evidently far less useful.  The locomotive portion of 1464 went to scrap in 1928 when it was just 19 years old and still a 4-cylinder balanced compound - Santa Fe never even bothered to convert it to a simple, single-expansion, 2-cylinder locomotive.  The 1139, built as a 4-cylinder Vauclain compound, was simpled in 1918,  Somewhere along the way it also got a new boiler, oil firing, and 1464's tender, running until July 29, 1952 when it was taken out of service at Wellington, KS.  It was donated to Dodge City in August of 1954.