Cajon summit looking east. The Cat Whisker F units are stopped on the west bound main while the crew sets the retainers before heading down into the Los Angeles basin. The summit office roof can be seen right above the last yellow Shell tank trailer in the first group of TOFCs. On the right are the wye used for turning helpers and the remains of the old stock corral. Chard Walker photo.
Wow, Santa Fe in the air! In another thread, there was a Warbonnet tugboat used in San Fransisco, so by land, air and sea!
Was it this post? https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/old-photos.146679/page-4#post-1241443
Nice picture of the truncated (I assume near the end of the service) Super C! I remember reading an article in Trains (I think) magazine about that service years ago. I'll have to find it again. It started out strong, but I believe the fact that the New York Central didn't fully buy in, among other reasons, doomed it. I could be misremembering, of course, which is why I have to go back and read the article again.
No, that was very early days, before it had much of a chance to catch on. 4197 was the only one of the seven mallet hinge Berkshires bought from B&M second hand during the war that the Santa Fe put some effort into standardizing. They managed to improve her tractive effort from 61,000 to 70,000 pounds, which still didn't compare to the 83,000 of their own Baldwins of the 4101 Class, but was good enough that she outlived the others by five years. She went to scrap with most of the 4101s in '54. I don't know of any other Limas on the Santa Fe roster. The 4101 boilers held 275 psi, though it was several years before they installed popoff valves that would hold that much. Their 300 psi Northerns also produced well over 80,000 pounds of starting tractive effort. Not many railroads got that much out of four driving axle power.
She was the first 2-10-4. The road didn't think to name the wheel arrangement; after all, she was just one of a large class of Santa Fe types. They were kind of blasé about extra trailing axles; their 4-8-4s were initially "Heavy Mountain" types. When the Texas & Pacific bought Berkshire-like, Mallet-hinged 2-10-4s from Lima a few years later, the type became known as the Texas type. And the Santa Fe, along with its subsidiaries the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe based in Galveston, and Panhandle and Santa Fe based in Amarillo (among other roads in the Lone Star State), agreed that it was the perfect name for the type, and just what they'd have called it if they had thought to call it anything. Among her "betterments" in the years before this pic was snapped was Universal disc main drivers.
Not according to what little I can find out; they were purpose built in the early twenties. But I'd be surprised if the road didn't reuse bits from old cars, like those archbar trucks. The road favored side door cabooses for branch line work. They were mainly found on mixed trains that didn't have enough passenger, express and mail traffic to justify a full-sized combine.
