The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison, Kansas, Atchison and Top ...
's 1158 class comprised two
2-6-6-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a is a locomotive with one pair of unpowered leading wheels, followed by two sets of three pairs of powered driving wheels and one pair of trailing wheel ...
articulated
An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint in its construction, allowing it to turn more sharply. There are many kinds, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometim ...
steam locomotives built in 1910 by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
They were
Jointed Boiler Locomotives, an experiment confined to the Santa Fe; the railroad considered it successful enough to build four of the later
3300 class locomotives with flexible boilers, but both classes were scrapped in the 1920s.
["The Jointed-Boiler Locomotives," '']Trains
In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often know ...
'' magazine, February 1945
References
2-6-6-2 locomotives
1158
Year 1158 ( MCLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Autumn – Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) sets out from Constantinople at ...
Baldwin locomotives
Mallet locomotives
Steam locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1910
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
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