The locomotive features a 4-8-4 "Heavy Mountain" wheel arrangement and was the first of its kind to be used by the Santa Fe Railway. The excursion ran over Metrolink, BNSF Railway, and Arizona and California Railroad tracks. Santa Fe No. The locomotive has been displayed at Fullerton Railroad Days in Fullerton, California a number of times. It's December 1991 and former AT&SF steam locomotive #3751 has returned to the Santa Fe mainline. Height restrictions at the numerous tunnels on this route resulted in the extension smokestack being replaced with a lower deflector type. Santa Fe adopted the terminology "Heavy Mountain", "New Mountain", or "Mountain 4-wheel trailer" as notation for this new 4-8-4 type and continued the numbering sequence of the 3700 class Mountains by numbering the first 4-8-4 3751. My grandfather Thomas William Lane was the Santa Fe locomotive engineer on the 3751 and he ran it during the forties and fifties from Los Angeles through the Cajon Pass to Barstow . In 1936, the locomotive was converted to burn oil and was given a larger tender that holds 20,000 US gallons (76,000l; 17,000impgal) of water and 7,107 US gallons (26,900l; 5,918impgal) of fuel oil two years later. [13] In March-April 2022, No. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe 3751 is a 484 Northern type steam locomotive built in 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Santa Fe 3751 - Santa Fe 3751 returns to steam! As part | Facebook I would be interested in how a steam locomotive- the very pinnacle of manual, analog, computerless technology- can be equipped with PTC. On the days that the weekly Super Chief operated, No. 3751 and the SBRHS crew, as it will be the Northerns first trip under steam since its FRA-mandated 1,472-day service inspection, which began early in 2018. Once operational, ATSF used #3751 to lead passenger trains until it was retired in 1957. . Two FP-45 diesel locomotives, #97 and #95, in . Steam locomotive Santa Fe #3751 at the Fullerton Railroad Days 2015. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. Instead of being scrapped like many other retired steam locomotives, she was spared and donated to the City of San Bernardino where it remained on static display for several decades. As part of the excursion, another special round-trip doubleheader to the Grand Canyon and back was run with 3751 and GCRY 4960. The total engine weight of 421,000 pounds was only about four tons heavier than the heaviest 3800 class 2-10-2s but enough to make No. Santa Fe 3759 - Wikipedia Get updates and special offers via email from Trains.com brands! A Brief History of the Santa Fe #3751. A maximum speed of 90 miles per hour was permitted with the rebuilt engines, although documentation shows that No.