Santa Fe No. 3167

The Santa Fe (ATSF) No. 3167 was a 'Mikado' type 2-8-2 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1917 for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
On Friday, July the 13th, 1951, Mikado no. 3167 - along with fellow Mikado 4076, and Prairie no. 1035 - were among ten Santa Fe steamers, all awaiting scrap at ATSF's Topeka railroad shops. The locomotives were moved over to the adjacent railroad bridge over the Kaw (Kansas) River, to keep the bridge from washing out during the intense flooding of the river that year.
Two of the five spans of the bridge ended up being weakened and gave way, taking the three aforementioned locomotives with them. When the floods subsided, they were left in situ as steam was already being phased out in numbers at the time.
During the mid-1950s, 3167 and 1035 were partially revealed submerged in sand just east of the renewed bridge during low tides, and Santa Fe workers salvaged what parts they could from them. Occasional sightings of 3167 have continued to come up over the years, but no serious recovery operation has ever been put forward due to lack of feasible justification.
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