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Wheels: 2-10-4 Record Created: Before June 10, 2017 Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works Record Updated: Never Build Date: 08/1944 Action: None Construction No.: 70823 Change History: Show Empty Weight: 538,000 Views: 2550 WOD: 380,000 Photo Album: Show Driver Diameter: 74 Video: No Tractive Effort: 93,000 Notes: Show Boiler Pressure: 310 Links: Add Cylinders: 30x34 Ownership Show Fuel: Oil Date of Photo: Unknown Gauge: 56.5"

Posted: Sep 22, 2005 @ 21:09:03 by peter m. preston
When the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad purchased its last group of 2-10-2 locomotives it had the Baldwin Locomotive Works equip one of them (number 3829) with a four-wheel trailing truck to see what difference there would be between a 2-10-2 and a 2-10-4. This experimental locomotive, deliverd in 1919, was the first ever of this wheel arrangement. The experiment ended without any conclusion results or any name given to this wheel arrangement, and No. 3829 was kept in service as a 2-10-4 until it was retired in 1955.

Six years later, in 1925, the Lima Locomotive Works designed a new locomotive by add a fifth set of drivers and increasing the cylinders of the "Berkshire" and created a true 2-10-4. The first railroad to take delivery of this new "Super power" was the Texas & Pacific railroad in 1925. Because the AT&SF design was merely an experiment no name had been attached to the 2-10-4 wheel arrangement in 1919. After the delivery, in 1925, the 2-10-4 was given the name "Texas" for the Texas & Pacific.

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