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Santa Fe class 3450
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1927· class of 10 American two-cylinder 4-6-4 locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, Locomotive No. 3455 with Tender (15683014268): SMU Central University Libraries· No restrictions
- 2. ATSF 3450: No machine-readable author provided. Morven assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Santa Fe class 3450 consisted of ten 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in 1927. Built as coal-burners, they were later converted to oil-burning during the 1930s. At the same time, the locomotives were given 79-inch (2,007 mm) driving wheels instead of their original 73-inch (1,854 mm), and the boiler pressures increased from 220 to 230 lbf/in2 (1.52 to 1.59 MPa).
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 99 years ago, in 1927.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 26 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 29.6 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 23 years (1927–1950).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927
- in service from
- 1927
- retired
- 1950
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-4
- length
- 29.6 m
- weight
- 156 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q300051, Wikipedia: Santa Fe class 3450 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.