New York Central No. 5445

New York Central No. 5445 was a J3a class 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotive built in 1938 by Alco for the New York Central railroad.
This streamlined locomotive was used for high-speed passenger service on the New York Central's own crack passenger trains, such as the 20th Century Limited. The streamlining was designed by Henry Dreyfuss, and applied to the locomotive as built, it had boxpok drivers instead of the usual scullin disk drivers the streamliners had, the streamlining was removed by the late 1940s, but they kept their drivers.
The locomotive was retired from service and it was scrapped in the late 1950s. No hudson's were preserved.
==Trivia==
*This was the first locomotive on the New York Central to be built with streamlined shrouds designed by Henry Dreyfuss in 1938.
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