Go to an old fashioned library. Or get on a forum where people have actual books on the subject. A quick online search show's people talking about the mayor trying to give the thing away etc..... like the chick in the commercial, can't be on the internet if it's not true.... A photo in a book from the 50's or 60's might have that engine, or its 'class' photographed in a certain area of a certain line, but one this size lots like it would sink in light track- just for mainline passenger power. Pacifics spread their weight evenly, but this is a bigger one. I am going to guess, it was that ATSF just wanted to get a nice but condemned engine donated without a long transport hassle. How close is the/a SF mainline? What town had the closest division point and roundhouse? Their museum and library would be a good field trip. So it might have worked out of the closest roundhouse. Some engines are very limited- only Southern Pacific coal burners were in New Mexico, UP's gas turbines confined to deserts with deaf animals, around here, CV Texans couldn't get over a bridge in northern Mass, so had to work in Vermont, D&H articulates couldn't get thru the tunnels and rock cuts to show themselves off at Canadian trade shows. Not without a visit by a Montreal autobody crew after the run there. Like tractor forums, there is alot of innacruate, useless, or off the wall information to hear themselves talk, but snapshots from the era at work, and captions by oldtimers who witnessed these machines are your best bet. You need pics older than 2004.... I will try to dig up something tonight, got a couple books on Santa Fe power... somewhere...
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