Southern Pacific No. 4219

Southern Pacific No. 4219 was a class AC-10 4-8-8-2 "Cab-Forward" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1942 for the Southern Pacific Railroad. It was used for both freight and passenger service on the Southern Pacific system.
It was retired in 1956 and put in storage for spare parts, except for the tender, which was later used to provide water for the rotary snowplows, and for fire-fighting service in remote areas along the railroad.
In 1958, the engine was sold for scrap, but the tender of the locomotive still exists. It is now an Auxiliary water tender behind Southern Pacific No. 4449 during steam excursion season.
==Trivia==
*The tender was purchased in 1984 by the Friends of 4449.
*The tender is kept at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center along with the tender from Great Northern No. 2575 as an auxiliary water tender for SP&S 700.
*The tender is curranty painted in the same colors as #4449 known as Daylight colors.
**From 2000-2002 it used to be painted black.
*In early May 2023, the tender was moved to Canada where it will be temporarily repainted into Canadian Pacific livery to be used as a second auxiliary water tender for Canadian Pacific No. 2816 in preparation for its upcoming excursion from Calgary, Alberta to Mexico City, Mexico and back to celebrate the completion of the proposed Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger. Once this continental excursion is complete, No. 4449's auxiliary water tender will be repainted back into the Southern Pacific Daylight livery and moved back to Portland, Oregon.
*When the 4449 used the tender for the Columbia-Deschutes Special excursion, and while painted in its American Freedom Train colors in 2002, it was still painted black from when it was used on the BNSF employee appreciation special back in 2000, as well as a passenger excursion on a circle route out of Portland OR in 2001 but the Silver Strips, and BNSF Logos were Removed. It instead has the American flag and "Let's Roll" lettering.
**There were plans that it was going to have a large American flag on either side of the tender but the weather was so bad they cannot add it. The weather was also so bad that they cannot paint the tender in American Freedom Train colors. The interview about it was revealed on Goodheart Productions' video "4449 Return to Freedom".
**When Santa Fe No. 3751 went to Williams, AZ, for the annual NRHS convention in August 2002, it borrowed the tender for this trip. When it was used for this event it still retains the same appearance from when it was used on the Columbia-Deschutes Special excursion, but with the addition of Santa Fe logos, and 3751's number.
*Spokane, Portland & Seattle No. 700 would often borrow the tender for steam excursion because her auxiliary tender which was from Great Northern No. 2575 was put away in storage.
==Gallery==
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