Steam prototype

Steam prototype

By Angela Cotey | February 20, 2020

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


The 2-10-4 wheel arrangement, the “Texas type,” originated with a modified Santa Fe 2-10-2 — No. 3829, built by Baldwin in 1919. The railroad would eventually roster 36 additional Texas-type locomotives, built by Baldwin between 1930 and 1944.
T.H. Cole Jr. photo

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