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The Distance Champion

Submitted by Lost World on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 8:03am.
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The last of AT&SF's 4-8-4's, #2929, sits on the ready track at 1st Street engine terminal, Los Angeles, in August of 1949, being readied for a trip east later in the day. She'll run to La Junta, Colorado for certain, or perhaps onward to Kansas City, 1776 miles away. The latter run was the longest ever regularly-scheduled run by a single steam locomotive, and won Santa Fe's 4-8-4's the title of "Distance Champions" for the duration of their careers. View full size.

The last of AT&SF's 4-8-4's, #2929, sits on the ready track at 1st Street engine terminal, Los Angeles, in August of 1949, being readied for a trip east later in the day. She'll run to La Junta, Colorado for certain, or perhaps onward to Kansas City, 1776 miles away. The latter run was the longest ever regularly-scheduled run by a single steam locomotive, and won Santa Fe's 4-8-4's the title of "Distance Champions" for the duration of their careers. View full size.

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Submitted by Dr Q on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 7:17pm.

Did they switch from coal to oil late in the game, or perhaps out west? Would this have allowed longer runs (no need to haul the ashes)?

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