Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ To operate steam locomotives in modern eras, auxiliary tenders are needed. This is due to the fact that steam locomotives require large amounts of water and modern railroads don't have water towers every 10 miles like they did in the steam era. Since we are operating steam engines like they were never retired, we thought it would appropriate to use auxiliary tenders in our steam operations.

Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ This video shows what 3751 would look like with a modern freight train on Raton Pass.

Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ AT&SF Steam Locomotive 5000 was the most powerful steam locomotive the Santa Fe Railway had in terms of pulling ability. Her mighty power was used often as a helper to get other trains over the pass. This video shows what it would be like if Madame Queen was restored to steam operations and used to pull a modern mixed freight train over the pass. Raton Pass is so steep that not even the Madame Queen can go it alone!

Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ AT&SF Steam Locomotive 2926 is the newest member of our Legacy Fleet. This is the first video featuring 2926 on this channel. We are celebrating the introduction of 2926 to Santa Fe's Raton Subdivision Model Railroad with this short video of 2926 double heading with 3751 on Raton Pass. You will see 3751 & 2926 battle the steep grades of Raton Pass and hear lots of "Stack Talk" as they lift the freight train upgrade, then you will hear the side rods clanking as the two engines drift downgrade on the New Mexico side of the pass.

Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ Be sure to check out our store at this link! Thanks for shopping with us! Santa Fe's Raton Subdivision Store link: https://santa-fes-raton-subdivision-m.myspreadshop.com Watch as Union Pacific Big Boy Locomotive #4002 and ATSF Steam Locomotive #5000 (Madame Queen) climb the 3.5 percent grades on Santa Fe's Raton Subdivision Model Railroad. This match up never actually happened, but it would really be something if it did. Let us know if you would like us to produce a dedicated video comparing Big Boy and Madame Queen's mighty power. Which one do you think is the most powerful?

Be sure to check out our store at this link! Thanks for shopping with us! Santa Fe's Raton Subdivision Store link: https://santa-fes-raton-subdivision-m.myspreadshop.com Dynamometer Car 29 was the brainchild of Charles T. Ripley and T. E. Layden. Both men supervised the design and construction of the car, which was created to measure and record the full spectrum of locomotive performance while the locomotive was being used in actual test under real-time load conditions. It was a true mobile laboratory and was used to evaluate all Santa Fe motive power between 1911 and 1963 when it was retired. Test equipment inside the car, also built by Charles T. Ripley and T. E. Layden, was used to record drawbar pull, speed, rate of firing, rate of water supplied to the boiler, air-brake operations, and the time of passing stations. All this information and more was recorded in six-second and one-minute intervals by electric and mechanically operated pens over a continuous moving chart at the rate of 6.6 inches per mile of travel. This remarkable testing equipment was designed and built before electronic miniaturization and vacuum tubes were even thought of. When diesel locomotives took over, Dynamometer Car 29 was used to record fuel consumption, dynamic braking, drawbar pull, drawbar horsepower, and other data pertinent to the diesel locomotive.

Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ Be sure to check out our store at this link! Thanks for shopping with us! Santa Fe's Raton Subdivision Store link: https://santa-fes-raton-subdivision-m.myspreadshop.com The California Limited The California Limited was one of the Santa Fe Railway's named passenger trains. It went into service on November 27, 1892 and it's last run was on June 15, 1954. It was the first Santa Fe passenger train with Fred Harvey meal service. AT&SF Steam Locomotive 3780 AT&SF Steam Locomotive 3780was a 4-8-4 built in 1941 for the 3776 Class. 3780's drivers were almost seven feet tall at 80-inches. On August 27, 1957, 3780 was the last steam locomotive to operate in revenue service on the Santa Fe Railway. It was scrapped on May 4, 1959.

Visit our store! https://santaferatonsub.square.site/ Come along and see what it would have been like if the Santa Fe Railway had never retired steam! On Santa Fe's Raton Subdivision Model Railroad, we operate steam locomotives as if Santa Fe Railway never retired them. To do this we needed a facility to operate from. We chose the town of Raton, NM for the center of operations of our steam power. There are currently five steam locomotives in our Legacy Fleet roster. 2-8-0 #840, 2-10-4 # 3829, 2-10-4 #5000, 4-8-4 # 3751 and 4-8-4 #2926. This video provides an up-close look at these historic steam locomotives, including their specifications, mechanical diagrams and video clips of each Legacy Fleet steam locomotive in operation. In modern times water towers and fuel oil facilities for steam locomotives no longer exist. At the Legacy Fleet Steam Facility, we utilize a historic water column and tanker trucks to fill the tenders. We also have auxiliary tenders to extend the range of operation of the steam locomotives.