Seen on a couple of sites; the California State Railroad Museum intends to restore AT&SF Prairie #1010 and operate it on the Sacramento Southern tourist line. A number of these Santa Fe 2-6-2's were preserved and this is the first one that would made operational.

Les

LEs,

In my recent travels out west this summer and late last year I've gotten to see similar ATSF 2-6-2's in LaJunta and Lamar, CO and wondered why none have been candidates for restoration so far. Personally, I prefer the looks of the modernized versions like the one in Lamar with the 12-wheel tender. They look like mini-Mikes to me and even a tad bigger because the sit taller with the larger drivers than any Mikado would have.

Rob Gardner

Rob -

I think the AT&SF's 1800 series 2-6-2's WERE bigger than the earlier 1000 and 1100 Santa Fe Prairies. I seem to recall seeing a photo of one of those 1800's in helper service at some location. Maybe some Santa Fe expert can tell us the difference, if in fact there were some besides that tender on the engine there in Lamar.

Les

The 1800 Class were bigger, among the biggest of their types ever built.

Engine weight of 1000 Class: 235, 200 lbs;

Engine weight of 1800 Class: 260, 132 lbs.

Is ATSF 1010 the Scotty engine? Is this also the engine displayed as the curtain lifts at the end of the orientation welcome film?

Wesley

I can't say I have seen the orientation film, but yes, she is the last "Death Valley Scotty" engine--and not only that, she's been on film before, and in an episode featuring the speed run no less in a western history series!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_1010

And here is the episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEVUvLeJwA

They are beautifully proportioned greyhounds like the FEC light pacifics - we're very lucky to be having both to appreciate (even of not at high commuter service speeds) on each side of the country.

That locomotive has it's own history too, reportedly originally built as a 4-cylinder compound with 79" drivers. I'll have to check my ATSF library and see if that was also one of the oddballs built with one of those Jacobs-Schupert fireboxes. Can't find a builders photo handy online but I'm sure that Worley's book will identify.

So part of the story on this locomotive isn't just that it was the Death Valley Scotty engine, it's testimony to the expirimentation, evolution, and rebuilding of steam. Compounding, driver swapping, superheaters.... a true evolutionary animal as well.