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.
16mm film shot by Donald J. Krofta in 1956 of Santa Fe 5001- and 5011-class engines on lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which used them on its Columbus-Sandusky, Ohio, line. From the Herron Rail Video program “Steam and Diesel on the Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 2.”
