TSRR 4-6-2 #500 (AT&SF)

TSRR 4-6-2 #500 (AT&SF)

Built by American Locomotive Company in January 1910 for the Florida East Coast. This locomotive, numbered 80 on the FEC, was one of 89 nearly identical light Pacifics built for the road between 1907 and 1922. These Pacifics, while light, were sufficient for the flat FEC, and served on passenger trains for many decades. With increasing train weight due to heavyweight passenger cars during the 1920s and 1930s, the class was displaced by Mountain types, and the Pacifics were reassigned to secondary trains and branch lines.
However, there were far too many of the class in service, and forty-nine of them were sold off to various smaller roads across the Southeastern USA, primarily in the state of Georgia. The Savannah & Atlanta Railway bought a trio during 1935 and 1936, with the first, FEC 80, receiving the number 750. On the S&A, like most lines receiving the FEC Pacifics, the engines were used as dual purpose locomotives. The only photograph of the locomotive with a train on the S&A that this author could find shows 750 on the point of a freight or mixed train in Camak, Georgia. 750 remained on the roster until the S&A donated the locomotive to the Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1962.
Soon after being donated, the Atlanta Chapter was using 750 on excursions in Georgia. Later in the 1960s, the Southern Railway began leasing 750 for use on excursions. 750, because of its size and the desired train lengths, was often run doubled headed with Southern Railway 630 (2-8-0) during the 1970s. Increasing train lengths in the Southern Steam Program eventually led to 750 being sidelined in favor of larger power. In the mid 1980s, the state of Georgia ran an excursion program called the New Georgia Railroad which featured 750 as the only steam engine until Atlanta & West Point 290 became operational in the early 1990s.
The decades of service eventually caught up with 750, and it last ran in August of 1989. Since that time, S&A 750 has been on display at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia. Due to the wear from its excursion career, it would require much work and money to be restored to operation; while it is not impossible for it to happen, it is extremely unlikely that 750 will operate again.

Builder: ALCo Schenectady Works
Date of Construction: January 1910
Builder's Number: 46567
Driver Size: 69 inches
Cylinders: 22 by 26 inches
Weight: 204,000 pounds
Boiler Pressure: 200 PSI
Top Speed: 88 MPH

Author: Ben Neal

TSRR 4-6-2 #500 (AT&SF)
• config.txt 10.85KB
• readme.txt 3.90KB
sa750_art
sa750_art_512.texture.txt 85 bytes
sa750_art_icon.bmp 24.05KB
sa750_art_icon.texture.txt 77 bytes
sa750_art_icon_a.bmp 24.05KB
sa750_art_preview.bmp 192.05KB
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sa750_body
builder.texture.txt 30 bytes
builder.tga 192.04KB
cabebt.texture.txt 29 bytes
cabebt.tga 48.04KB
derp.tga 3.00MB
ebtdriver.texture.txt 32 bytes
ebtdriver.tga 192.04KB
ebtdriver2.texture.txt 33 bytes
ebtdriver2.tga 192.04KB
env_metal.bmp 12.05KB
glass.texture.txt 28 bytes
glass.tga 48.04KB
lod1.im 1.03MB
lod2.im 684.81KB
lod3.im 385.04KB
lod4.im 66.79KB
org750a.texture.txt 30 bytes
org750a.tga 3.00MB
org750a_small.texture.txt 36 bytes
org750a_small.tga 256.04KB
org750b.texture.txt 30 bytes
org750b.tga 3.00MB
org750b_small.texture.txt 36 bytes
org750b_small.tga 256.04KB
sa750_body.lm.txt 347 bytes
shadow1.texture.txt 49 bytes
shadow1.tga 256.04KB
sa750_shadow
sa750_shadow.im 65.28KB
shadow.bmp 822 bytes
shadow.texture.txt 29 bytes
shadow1.texture.txt 29 bytes
• thumbnail.jpg 119.08KB