Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 2-10-4 No. 5000
Amarillo, Texas, United States 		Location: Railroad Artifact Preservation Society (north of Civic Center)
Status: Display
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Posted: Oct 1, 2025 @ 15:10:01 by p51
as of 2025 the locomotive is starting to rust
Posted: Aug 29, 2021 @ 19:08:55 by Brian Pacos
Tractive effort is 113,086 lbF when calculated using the tractive effort formula
Posted: May 6, 2016 @ 11:05:18 by Matthew Gardner
This locomotive actually has 113,000 pounds tractive effort, not 93,000 pounds. It is also the most powerful non-articulated steam locomotive ever built, and is only one thousand fewer pounds weaker in strength that the 1218, and the 2050 at Illinois Railway Museum.
Posted: Apr 16, 2004 @ 23:04:57 by Sam Teague
Railroad Artifact Preservation Society, Inc. (RAPS) has a contract with the City of Amarillo TX to relocate engine 5000 to the new site North of the downtown Civic Center Complex.  The relocation, preservation, and indoor display of AT&SF No. 5000 is called "Project 5000" by RAPS.  For more information about how you can get involved with this historic move, go to the society's web site at www.railroadartifactpreservation.org or email at rapsama1@cox.net
Posted: Feb 19, 2004 @ 08:02:32 by Lindsay Lovell
It was built in 1929 to try out the concept of a 2-10-4 wheel arrangement.  This wheel arrangement was needed to provide stability on curves when the locomotive backed downgrade from Raton pass to Raton, New Mexico when in helper service.  The 2-10-2 locomotives then in use had problems in reverse to Raton.  The Santa Fe liked this locomotive, but the Great Depression of 1930 meant there was no money to buy others like it.  When they finally did purchase other locomotive of the 2-10-4 wheel arrangement it was in the late 1930s, and more modern innovations meant the newer models were of a different construction than this locomotive.  This locomotive is the only one of its type ever constructed.