Santa Fe Engine Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-One

The locomotive known as Engine Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-One was delivered to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in May of nineteen twenty-seven. It was the first four-eight-four type locomotive ever built by Baldwin, and the first of its class for the Santa Fe. In nineteen forty-one, after receiving larger eighty-inch drive wheels, it was clocked at one hundred three miles per hour, a speed record for American steam.

Retired from revenue service in nineteen fifty-three, it was eventually restored to operating condition by the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society and ran excursions through the nineteen nineties. Today it is the oldest surviving four-eight-four locomotive in the world and is maintained at San Bernardino, not far from the shops where it was once converted from a coal burner to an oil burner in nineteen thirty-six.