Texas and New Orleans Class P-14

Texas and New Orleans P-14 were a series of 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives that were owned by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and called the "Sunbeam".
==History==
The T&NO streamlined three P-14 class 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives and painted them with their Vanderbilt tenders in Daylight colors. The class P-14 Pacifics Southern Pacific class P-6 Pacific-type 4-6-2 locomotives 650, 651 and 652 were renumbered to #2455, #2456 and #2457 while they were leased to the Texas & New Orleans in 1937 to replace with the diesel locomotives.
The P-14s served on the Sunbeam and the Hustler, running between Dallas and Houston and were successful enough that the Texas & New Orleans purchased them from the Southern Pacific at the end of May 1946, bringing lease payments to an end. Eventually, however, they were replaced with diesels, downgraded to lesser trains, and then stored.
No. 650 was sold for scrap to Houston Compressed steel in March 1954 and its sisters were scrapped later that same year.
==Trivia==
*Technically the T&NO is owned by the Southern Pacific.
*The Sunbeam was re-equipped on September 19, 1937, as a streamlined train in the Daylight paint scheme.
*650, 651 and 652 retained many characteristics of their 1913 origin including a sharply tapered. On the other hand, the 1937 rebuilding allowed hundred mile-per-hour speeds.
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