IHC / RIVAROSSI
HO Scale
READY-TO_RUN
2-10-2 " SANTA FE " Steam Engine
PREMIER GOLD Series
This is a DC POWERED LOCO
OUT - OF - PRODUCTION Locomotive
DISCONTINUED By the Manufacturer
Lettered for the:
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Featuring the
" CANADIAN PACIFIC Block Letters " LOGO Paint Scheme
The unit is highly detailed
FEATURES:
More Variety for Steam- and Transition-Era Railroads
* DC Version / DCC Ready for conversion
* Loco & Tender Electrical Pick-Up
* Separately Molded Consumer Applied: Worthington Feedwater Heater, Turbo Generator, Locomotive Bell
* Sprung Drivers, RP-25 Contour Wheels
* Blackened METAL Handrails and Whell Sets, Coupler Cut Levers, Grab Irons, Rods, and valve Gear.
* Separately Molded Factory Applied: Sand Dome and Feed Lines, Steam Turret, Air Compressor, Air Reservoir, Power Reverse Gear, Lubrication Reservoirs, Steam and Water Feed Lines, Nathan Low Water Alarm, Popper Valves, Elesco Feedwater Heater.
* Operating Headlights n Locomotive and Tender
* Provision for Speaker Mount
* Balanced Machined Metal Flywheel
* State of the Art Can Motors Driving Precision Helical Matched gear Transmission
* Wiring for Smoke Generator Installation on some locomotives
* 8 Pole Connector between Locomotive & Tender
* Locomotives come with NMRA 8 pin receptacle in the Tender for DCC Operation conversion.
* Improved Tractive Effort
* Weighted for Maximum Tractive Effort
* Nickel-Silver Plated RP-25Wheels
* One-piece boilers, engine covers, cabs and tenders of pressure-cast high impact plastic.
* Steel main and side rods.
* Steel handrails and coupler release bars on both loco and tender.
* Many additional fine details.
* Easy rolling steel needle point truck axles
* Tender with separately applied Coal or Oil Bunker Style as Appropriate to Road
WHEEL CONFIGURATION:
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. In the United States and elsewhere the 2-10-2 is known as the " Santa Fe " type, after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that first used the type in 1903.
Overview
The 2-10-2 wheel arrangement evolved in the United States from the 2-10-0 Decapod of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). Their existing 2-10-0 tandem compound locomotives, used as pushers up Raton Pass, encountered problems reversing back down the grade for their next assignments since they were unable to track around curves at speed in reverse and had to run very slowly to avoid derailing. Consequently, the ATSF added a trailing truck to the locomotives which allowed them to operate successfully in both directions. These first 2-10-2 locomotives became the forerunners to the entire 2-10-2 family.
The trailing truck allows a larger, deeper firebox than that of a 2-10-0. Like all ten-coupled designs, the long rigid wheelbase of the coupled wheels presented a problem on curves, requiring flangeless drivers, lateral motion devices and much sideplay on the outer axles. To limit this problem, the coupled wheels were generally small, up to 64 inches (1,630 mm) in diameter, which in turn generated the problem of insufficient counterweights to balance the weight of the driving rods.
The 2-10-2's inherent problem was the low speed restriction on the type, which was about 35 mph (56 km/h). Further, the 2-10-2 had other inherent restrictions. The massive cylinders that were required on locomotives in the United States for high tractive effort had the result that no reasonably sized valves could admit and exhaust steam at a sufficient rate to permit fast running. In addition the 2-10-2, like the 2-6-2, had its main rod connected to the middle coupled axle, very near to the center of gravity, which created a violent nosing (waddling) action when operating at speed. The peak of the 2-10-2 design limitations was reached in the United States in 1926 and was overcome with the advent of the superior 2-10-4 design.
HISTORY:
In the United States, the 2-10-2 type was produced between 1903 and 1930. The first were the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) engines of the 900 and 1600 series, which were an early type with few advantages over the 2-10-0 Decapod, save their ability to operate in reverse without derailing. By 1919, the AT&SF was building the definitive type, with the trailing truck supporting a large firebox. These were of the AT&SF 3800 class. One of them, AT&SF engine no. 3829, was equipped with an experimental two-axle trailing truck to become the first 2-10-4 Texas type.
About 2,200 Santa Fe types were built, including about 500 of the two United States Railroad Administration (USRA) First World War standard designs. There were two USRA standard 2-10-2s, the heavy version with an engine weight of 380,000 pounds (170 t) and the light version with an engine weight of 352,000 pounds (160 t). The Santa Fe had the most with 352 engines.
Of the 2-10-2’s built for the Santa Fe, only one has been preserved. AT&SF No. 940 is on static display outside the Santa Fe depot, now a Visitor Center, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
The heaviest 2-10-2s were ten locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Reading Railway c. 1931, weighing 451,000 pounds (205 t), engine only.
At 104,000 pounds-force (460 kN), the Illinois Central Railroad's 2800 class rebuilds probably had the highest calculated tractive effort of any two-cylinder steam locomotive, although the adhesive weight was only 333,000 pounds (151 t).
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ordered its first 2-10-2 from Baldwin in 1914. From 1914 to 1956, their 2-10-2s bore numbers commencing with 6, hence the nickname "Big Sixes". Designated the S class, there were several sub-classes. The first of the Big Sixes was retired in 1951 and were all scrapped by 1960.
The Southern Railway (SOU) ordered its first batches of fifty-five 2-10-2 Ss class steam locomotives (Nos. 5000-5054) from Baldwin in 1917. The second batches of twenty-five 2-10-2s (Nos. 6350-6374) were built by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond Works in 1918 originally for SOU's Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific (CNO&TP) division. The latter batches were later moved to the SOU's main division and renumbered to 5055-5079 when they were proved to be too bulky for the CNO&TP tunnels' tight clearances. After receiving the last batches of Ss types, the SOU received fifty more 2-10-2s (Nos. 5200-5249) from ALCO's Brook Works in a USRA Light Santa Fe design which were classified as Ss-1. Both classes were assigned to SOU's Asheville division, banking and hauling heavy freight trains up the steep Saluda Grade and Old Fort Loops in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Between the late 1930s and the early 1950s, all of the Ss and Ss-1 steam locomotives were retired and scrapped with none surviving into preservation.
The Union Pacific Railroad rostered 144 2-10-2 locomotives, under the designation of TTT (Two-Ten-Two). They were divided into classes TTT-1 through TTT-7, but all had the same cylinder dimensions, driving wheel diameter and boiler pressure.[ Of these, only one locomotive survives; Union Pacific 5511 was donated to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America, who plans to restore the locomotive to operating condition.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western rostered ten 2-10-2 locomotives, under the class designation of F-81, rostered as No 1400-1409, and purchased from Alco in 1916. None survived into preservation, all of them being scrapped between 1952 and 1955.
" These have been highly sought after Units "
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STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
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