#2754
Santa Fe Class 2900
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1943· class of 30 American 4-8-4 locomotives
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- 1. USA Colour 003 Gallup 1: Brooksbank· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Santa Fe 2900 Class was a series of 30 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built between 1943 and 1944 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (ATSF) and pulled freight and passenger trains until retirement in the early to late-1950s. Today, six 2900s survive, with five engines on static display and one, No. 2926, has been restored to operating condition in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 3.4 MW is about 40 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 39 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 36.6 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 7 years (1943–1950).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1943–1944
- in service from
- 1943
- retired
- 1950
- status
- in service
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- power
- 3.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-4
- length
- 36.6 m
- weight
- 231 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q29576257, Wikipedia: Santa Fe Class 2900 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.