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Southern Pacific 4294 Cab Forward

The last remaining Southern Pacific 4294 Cab Forward articulated 4-8-8-2 oil burning locomotive in the Californian State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. This is the last of the group of 20 locomotives that was built by the Southern Pacific Railway to negotiate the many tunnels and snow sheds of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

to address the problem of exhaust fumes asphyxiating the crews in the tunnels.

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Uploaded on March 18, 2017
Taken on September 12, 2016