Santa Fe No. 132

Santa Fe No. 132 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1880 for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
This locomotive was designed to worked as a switch engine and haul freight trains, and to tackle the steep grades of Raton Pass, on the Colorado-New Mexico border. This was the largest and heaviest locomotive constructed up to that time, and its success convinced the AT&SF to order ten more 2-8-0s for service over the pass.
The locomotive began service in October of 1880 and kept hauling freight trains up and down Raton Pass for the next twenty years. Over this period, it was renumbered #912 in 1898 and then #2414 in 1900. As more powerful locomotives arrived, #132 was redesignated to yard duties and, in 1923, was assigned to the Argentine Yards in Kansas City as an 0-8-0.
It worked until 1939, when, after nearly sixty years of service, it was to be scrapped. However, identified as AT&SF's oldest surviving locomotive, it was saved and refurbished as a 2-8-0 in 1940-1941 for static display.
Renumbered #132, the locomotive became a corporate symbol for the AT&SF and was spared from the WWII scrap drives that decimated many elderly steam locomotives. In 1950, it was overhauled and returned to operation as #1 and named "Cyrus K. Holliday" in honor of the founder of the AT&SF.
When the locomotive went back in operation in 1950, it received a new tender and two 1880s period coaches and steamed at local celebrations, fairs and other events.
In 1977, the AT&SF made a commitment to donate #132 to the Kansas Historical Society for display at the Kansas Museum of History, then in the planning stages. In February 1983, #132 was finally hauled by flatbed to the museum, although it was then still largely a construction site, and moved into place.
Today the locomotive is still on static display at The Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas. The two passenger cars that the locomotive used for events were on static display with #132 as well. These have been restored to their appearance as a 1920s drover's car and a 1910s division superintendent's car. 
==Trivia==
*No. 132 is the oldest surviving Santa Fe steam locomotive.
*Occasionally, the locomotive appeared in films, as well as in an episode of the television series "Gunsmoke".
==See also ==
*Gallery
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