Elvas Tower: ATSF_3200_UL - Elvas Tower

ATSF 3160 Class 2-8-2 Mikado No. 3200
May 4, 2009
Model by: Allen Norton.
Textures by Allen Norton, Herb Kelsey and Steve Thomas
Physics created by: Allen Norton and Herb Kelsey
Lighting by: Allen Norton
Shape files for coupler, airhoses and cutbar provided by: "Tim Muir"
Sounds provided by: Herb Kelsey and Barry "Captain Bazza" Munro
Testing performed by:Herb Kelsey, Steve Thomas, Tim Muir, Edwin Dalosa
and ... and anybody else I
might have forgotten.
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A big thank you for: Herb Kelsey for his knowledge and understanding
without which this project would not have been
possible, "preserving a little of SantaFe"
Also a very special thanks to: Steve Thomas for his fantastically
detailed Baldwin builder plates.
And another thanks to: Edwin Dalosa for his support and encouragment.
And another thanks to: Tim Muir for his great screen shots.
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SOME HISTORY: (Excerpt from "Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail)
"Commencing in 1917, and continuing on consecutively through 1920, 128 locomotives of the 3160 Class were added to the Santa Fe's roster. These were markedly larger than either class of their immediate predecessors and compared favorably in working pressure, cylinder size, tractive effort and weight to the much more widely known L-1s Class of the Pennsylvania R.R., then also being turned out in quantity. The first 28 engines of the class had Baker valve gear, while the balance was equipped with Walschaert. Various modifications were made over a period of years, including the addition of an extra sand box, changed equalizers and the application of feedwater heaters to numbers 3160-3257. [Ed. Note: 3258-3287 came with Elesco feedwater heaters from Baldwin.] A number of the engines wre coal burning and intended for use on the Eastern lines of the Santa Fe; the bulk of the class was oil burning."
This locomotive as modeled is a representative of the coal burning Eastern and Colorado lines 2-8-2's. No 3200 was built in 1918 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and carried builder's number 48896. With a weight on 63" drivers of 259,000 lbs, a total weight of 358,400 lbs, boiler pressure of 200 PSI and a tractive force of 63,000 lbs, it was not a small Mikado yet frequently found its way onto branch lines, particulary in the later years of its active career. Although carrying what would seem like a "Class" number, the engine was just one of the 3160's. It is modeled here as it appeared in the 1940's, still a coal burner and carrying its original 12,000 gallon tender. 3200 survived until 1953.

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