Southern Pacific No. 3025

Southern Pacific RR No. 3025 is a class A-3 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type steam locomotive built for the Southern Pacific Railway by ALCO in 1904.
No. 3025 was used as a "crack" (fast) passenger-train engine, and with its massive driving wheels, was able to attain speeds up to 100 miles per hour and - at that speed - pull 12 passenger cars. The locomotive probably hauled several name passenger services in California, including the Daylight, the Starlight and the Lark.
In 1952, it was retired from active service. It still has its inside Stephenson link motion and was the first standard gauge locomotive to go on display at Travel Town (in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA) that year after being donated to the museum by the Southern Pacific. Today it remains as a static display there.
==Trivia==
*No. 3025 is the only sole remaining "Atlantic" type from the SP.
*This locomotive looks fairly similar to the original PRR No. 7002.
*There was Southern Pacific FM H24-66 that was numbered #3025 to haul commuter trains. It was originally numbered #4805, and was scrapped in 1975, when it was retired.
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