Southern Pacific RR No. 3025 is a class A-3 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type steam locomotive built for the Southern Pacific Railway by ALCO in 1904. No. 3025 was used as a "crack" (fast) passenger-train engine, and with its massive driving wheels, was able …

No. 3025 was built in 1904 by the American Locomotives Company's works in Schenectady, New York, and was purposefully constructed with extraordinarily tall driving wheels for high-speed passenger service, at 81" nearly the tallest ever built.

Once the pride of Southern Pacific Lines, this high-speed passenger locomotive, with its 81" tall driving wheels, could reach speeds up to 100-miles-per-hour! Certainly state-of-the-art when she was built in 1904, locomotive 3025 sped along the Southern Pacific’s California “Coast” and “Valley” lines for nearly 50 years.

SP 3025 was built at the ALCO Schenectedy Works in 1904. The locomotive has 81" drivers and 21" x 28" cylinders. It weighs 115 tons. This high-stepping Atlantic (4-4-2) is on display at Travel Town, Los Angeles, California.

1954 photo / uncredited, of Travel Town's favorite pin-up girl, Coraleen Jurion checking out the 81" diameter drive wheels on SP 3025 Photo Date: 6/1/1954 Upload Date: 6/25/2021 11:03:51 AM

Spoked pilot wheels didn't last long! The 4-4-2 Atlantic #3025 is preserved at Travel town. They had a booster valve on back of steam dome. Train indicators and blower valve assembly with elbow were present.

A large quantity of rolling stock formerly owned and operated by Southern Pacific Railroad have been preserved in museums, on tourist railroads, and various other locations all across North America. Refs. Static display; Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas. Not to be confused with the Minute Maid Park ornamental train.

SP 3025 is a Fairbanks-Morse H-24-66, SP Class FP624-2. Reportedly: it was originally built for, and rejected by, the New York Central. SP 3025 was intended to be NYC 4607 but was instead shipped to the SP in 1953 as the 4802, SP Class DF-501.

The "Alco-Schenectady Construction Number List" indicates that Construction Numbers 30005 through 30020, Road Numbers 3025 through 3037 and 289 through 291, were shipped to "Southern Pacific" during August of 1904.

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