2014年3月24日 · On Aug. 27, 1957, ATSF 5021 (2-10-4) and ATSF 3780 (4-8-4) were used as helpers through the Abo Pass between Belen and Mountainair, New Mexico. No. 5021 returned to Belen first, followed by No. 3780, making ATSF 3780 the last Santa Fe steam locomotive to perform revenue service for the Santa Fe.

Nice Baldwin builder photo of the 1941 4-8-4 Northern built as ATSF #3780 (serial #62469, class 3776). This was the last steam engine to operate on the Santa Fe line. It was sold for scrap to the Luria Bors. on 5/4/1959 after nearly 18 years of service.

Title (Main title): the Santa Fe Railway's steam-powered locomotive engine # 3780. 4-8-4 type, class 3776, built in 1941. Part of: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company records. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Corporate Photo Collection. Series 1: Subject files.

Thermic syphons (30.5 sq ft) in the 84-in combustion chamber only. Firebox heating surface includes 124 sq ft in the combustion chamber as well. Steam admission through 15" (381 mm) piston valves. Their appliances included an American multiple throttle, Worthington Type 6-SA feed water heater, Timken roller bearings on all axles.

Number 3780 with its smoke box mounted bell ringing gets a passenger train underway somewhere in California. The tracks are nearly in the street or parking lot as the mighty steamer leaves town. Rear vestibules were frequent vantage points for Jean Miller and coming down a Baron Raton pass on the Colorado New Mexico State Line was no exception ...

ATSF History . Santa Fe: A Chronology. By Michael W. Blaszak. Few railroads, or companies of any kind, can boast as rich or interesting a heritage as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.

ATSF 4-8-4 Models by Tom Thompson . 3751 Class –HO Models –Key Brass •Original form, 73” spoked drivers, but with later 20K square oil tender ... •Painted for 3780, roller-bearing rods, no steam dome (after 11-1952) •Painted for 3782, roller-bearing rods, no steam dome (after 11-1949)

Looking for more power, the AT&SF bought two 4-8-2 "Mountains" from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1918. One of them, road number 3700, was a coal burner and the other, road number 3701, burned oil. Before these two were delivered, another ten were ordered: five coal burners and five oil burners (road numbers 3702 through 3711).

ATSF 4-8-4 #3780 - Santa Fe Nice Baldwin builder photo of the 1941 4-8-4 Northern built as ATSF #3780 (serial #62469, class 3776). This was the last steam engine to operate on the Santa Fe line.