In the Fall 2006 issue of Classic Trains, we look at the Santa Fe’s great steam designs during the tenure of Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley. See clips of the giant 5001- and 5011-class 2-10-4’s on home rails in New Mexico and on lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad in Ohio from the Herron Rail Video collection.
8mm film shot by Joseph Schmitz in 1956 when the 2-10-4’s were running as helpers out of Belen, N.Mex.; they were retired just a few days after these scenes. From a forthcoming Herron Rail Video program.
