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Intermountain - N Scale - AC-12 - Southern Pacific (SP) (w/Tender Lettering) #4294 in Sacramento Museum (SKU 85-79009)

Available On: November 1, 2012

Southern Pacific Cab Forward No. 4294


Displayed At The California State Railroad Museum
in Old Sacramento 
  
From the museum website:
 
In September 1958 the now dieselized SP wrote-off its twenty-nine remaining cab-forwards. The Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society organized a campaign to save No. 4294 from the scrap heap. SP responded by putting the engine "on hold" while the rest of the cab-forwards were scrapped.
 
SP 4294 was placed on outdoor display in front of SP's Sacramento station and dedicated to the City of Sacramento on October 19, 1958 in a celebration that also featured the C. P. Huntington. Both locomotives were moved in 1967, to make way for an Interstate 5 approach ramp. They temporarily appeared at the Sacramento station in May 1969 for the Gold Spike Centennial Celebrations.
 
For eleven years No. 4294 was stored in SP's Sacramento yards, awaiting restoration and display in the California State Railroad Museum. In early 1981 the monstrous locomotive received a cosmetic restoration in the Museum's restoration facility. It has been completely repainted and refurbished, and many of the missing parts replaced.
 
Mechanically, the engine is in remarkably good condition; during the Museum's cosmetic restoration, nothing was found that would preclude the possible restoration of the locomotive to operable condition at a later date.
 
Southern Pacific No. 4294, the last one of its kind in the world, occupies a place of prominence on the main floor of the Museum of Railroad History.

 
Southern Pacific Railroad's AC-12 class of cab forward steam locomotives was the last class of steam locomotives ordered by Southern Pacific. They were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works during World War II, with the first, number 4275, entering service on October 27, 1943, and the last, 4294, on March 19, 1944.

SP used the AC-12s for a little over a decade with the first retirements occurring on April 5, 1955, and the last on September 24, 1958. All but one of this class, number 4294, was scrapped.

Features:

  • Sharp Painting and Lettering
  • Road Numbers Printed Per Prototype Photos
  • Powerful Drive
  • Intricate Details
  • Micro-Trains Couplers
  • Special run - very limited quantities available






$339.95 US
Country of Origin: China