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While leaving Belen, New Mexico back in March 1943, Jack Delano photographed four year old HH1000 2315 waiting on one side of his departing westbound while 3828, a classic Santa Fe 2-10-2 flying white flags waited on the other. Had it been the 3829, according Evan Werkema's website, it would have been the one oddly numbered 2-10-4. Oh well, better luck next time.
Photo credit the Library of Congress
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/26 07:09 by MacBeau.

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I, too, missed by one. The ALCO HH1000 shown is 2315. I saw ATSF 2314's hulk at the GE plant in Erie, Pennsylvania in the late 1960's/early 1970's.
Bob

ATSF 2-10-2 number 3829 was used as a test engine for a new four wheel trailing truck design.   They wanted to see how it performed in the real world before building the 5000, or Madame Queen the first designed and built as a 2-10-4, also a one of a kind engine, now preserved at Amarillo.    Note that the 5000 was designed as a natural progression of the then current engines so has the look of the 3800 class 2-10-2's and 4000 class 2-8-2's, but when they did the production run of 5001 class 2-10-4's they were designed around an entirely new concept and they look like the latter 4-8-4's,  3765 class, 3776 class and 2900's, where as the 3751 was the earlier design ethos.   Of course 3751 as she is today is nothing like she was as built as everything was changed out at some point outside of the pony and trailing trucks, even the tender was changed.

Richard.

Thank you adding in that detail, explains how it got there among the 140 Santa Fe's.
—Mac

ATSFSuperCap Wrote:
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> ATSF 2-10-2 number 3829 was used as a test engine
> for a new four wheel trailing truck design. 
>  They wanted to see how it performed in the real
> world before building the 5000...