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Santa Fe class 3460
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1937· class of 6 American 4-6-4 locomotives
what is it?
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's 3460 class comprised six 4-6-4 "Super Hudson" type steam locomotives built in 1937 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for service between La Junta, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois, a fairly flat division of the railroad suited for the 4-6-4 type. They were substantially larger than the road's earlier 3450 class locomotives, and all were built oil-fired, although in a manner that would allow for easy conversion to coal firing. All were fitted with SKF roller bearings on every axle.
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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- 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.
- 2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 32 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 13 years (1937–1950).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937
- in service from
- 1937
- retired
- 1950
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- power
- 2.7 MW
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-4
- length
- 16.8 m
- weight
- 189 t
- nicknames
- The Big Three
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4654907, Wikipedia: Santa Fe class 3460 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.