Donate online now by clicking on the "Donate Now!" Tractive Effort: 51,076 lbs. The locomotive returned to service in 2004 after a restoration period and is now housed on a short spur line in suburban Jefferson Parish. [9][10] Following the rebuild, No. In 1984, a group calling itself the Old Kenner Railroad Association (OKRA) managed to get the engine donated to its care and subsequently removed it from the park in hopes of an eventual restoration. 12. 1218 to triple head a 28-car passenger excursion train from Chattanooga to Atlanta. SP owned the Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio, and sent 745 to work for it. [5], In the 1970s, No. One of Dixon’ s books has a “builder’ s photo” of a long string of newly built mikes at the Algiers Shops. Leading Wheel: 33″ 4501's tender, which could hold 12 tonnes (12,000 kg) of coal and 8,000 US gallons (30,000 l) of water, was replaced by a larger ex-Central of Georgia (CG) tender from a maintenance of way wreck train in Georgia. Southern Railway 4501 is a class "Ms" 2-8-2 " Mikado " type steam locomotive built in October 1911 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the first of its wheel arrangement type to be built for the Southern Railway. [14], After Norfolk Southern ended their steam program in late 1994, No. [11], In 1994, Norfolk Southern announced that they would discontinue their steam program due to serious safety concerns, rising insurance costs, the expense of maintaining steam locomotives, and decreasing rail network availability due to a surge in freight traffic. 4501 returned to the TVRM on May 25, 1994. Although it was always painted "Southern Pacific" or "Southern Pacific Lines", it actually worked for SP subsidiaries. The Mikado-type locomotive is considered by many to be the classic American freight locomotive from the golden age of steam locomotives. [20], On September 6, 2014, No. In 2001, they had obtained enough donations and grants to begin a several year restoration project with volunteers and professional crews. 4501 operated as the main star of Southern's steam program until being replaced by larger steam locomotives in 1985. [3], After the restoration was completed in August 1966, the No. The SP consigned most of the parts to New Orleans, and a smaller order to the SP shop at Houston, Texas, ostensibly for repairs. It remained there until 1984, when it was removed to make room for expansion of the Audubon Zoo. [19] A replica of a Worthington SA type feedwater heater from a China Railways QJ Class 2-10-2 was built to improve the locomotive's performance. [17][19] The Armstrong lubricators that spring-loaded the driving wheels were replenished by an automatic lubricator from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in North Yorkshire, England. [19] Its tender was given a mechanical stoker from Canadian National Railway No. [30][31], In September 2019, No. Build Date: 1921 4501's boiler also received attention and was recertified from its operating pressure of 200 psi (1.38 MPa) to 205 psi (1.41 MPa), which created a slight increase in tractive effort.
Several others are not mentioned here due to the shear n… Southern Pacific 745 is Mikado-type steam locomotive that was fabricated at the Southern Pacific Railroad's Algiers Shops at Algiers Point directly across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. SP 745 has been used in several films, including two major motion picture, the Brad Pitt / Cate Blanchett movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for which it was painted to look like a Southern Railway locomotive, and Jonah Hex, where it took on characteristics of a much older locomotive.
Of the mikes built in Algiers, they received road numbers 738-750.
[6] The locomotive became famous for pulling the Old Milwaukee Special circus train via the CNW line between Baraboo, Wisconsin and Madison, Wisconsin and the MILW line to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in summer 1973. After Southern Pacific retired 745 in 1956, it was donated and placed on display in Audubon Park in New Orleans. A quick look under the cab’ s foot plate reveals an extra steam line connection for providing steam to passenger cars.
[25] On June 27, the locomotive pulled the Lonesome Pine Special excursion from Bristol, Tennessee to Bulls Gap, Tennessee, and ran the Radford Rambler excursion again on June 28. 4501 remained at the TVRM to continue regular operations and became the main motive power for its seasonal Summerville Steam Special excursion from Chattanooga to Summerville, Georgia. 4501 operated for its owner, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Various nicknames have been ascribed to these locomotives, the most widely accepted name being “Mikados”, as some of the first locos of this wheel arrangement were sent to Japan. Weight: 280,960 lbs Southern Pacific steam locomotive 745 has an interesting history. The state of Texas had a law that required railroads operating in the state to be based there. 745 is regarded as a classic among steam locomotives, and for its significance, it was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Since then SP 745 has visited many areas around the state of Louisiana and southwest Mississippi as well as Kansas City, Missouri. The locomotive is currently leased to the Louisiana Steam Train Association (LASTA). Southern Pacific 745 is a Mikado-type (2-8-2) steam locomotive that has been restored to operating condition. In 1948, the locomotive was retired from the Southern in favor of dieselization and was sold to the shortline Kentucky and Tennessee Railway (K&T) in Stearns, Kentucky to haul coal trains. 745 was rebuilt following the accident and placed back into service. Southern Pacific 745 is Mikado-type steam locomotive that was fabricated at the Southern Pacific Railroad's Algiers Shops at Algiers Point directly across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
4501 was dressed up as Louisville & Nashville steam locomotive J-3 class No. The Harriman standard Mikados, including SP 745 and the other members of Southern Pacific’s Mk-5 class designed in 1913, was the first great attempt at standardizing the main freight locomotive.