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Title: View of new streamlined steam locomotive
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: view of the new streamlined steam locomotive of the Santa Fe R.R. while it was on display at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Description of Locomotive 3460: Length of engine and tender, 102 feet; Weight of engine and tender, 816,740 lbs.; Tractive effort, 49,300 lbs.; Steam pressure, 300 lbs.; Cylinders bore, 23 1/2", Strokes, 29 1/4"; Driving wheels diameter, 84"; Fire box length 132", width 108"; Capacity of tender oil, 7107 gals.; Water 21,300 gals.; Total wheel base, 88'-8"; Maximum speed, 107 m.p.h.; and equipped with roller bearings.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033066
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (4102) 4x5; Transportation-Railroads-Santa Fe.
CARL0000037160
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97201
Subject: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Transportation--California--Los Angeles
Steam locomotives--California--Los Angeles

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