Southern Pacific Railroad The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Railroad classes#Class I, Class I Rail transport, railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was ...

's AC-5 class of

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s was the railroad's second class of

4-8-8-2 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-2 is a locomotive with four leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a two-wheel trailing truck. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classificatio ...

cab forward The term cab forward refers to various rail and road vehicle designs that place the driver's compartment substantially farther towards the front than is common practice. Rail locomotives In steam locomotive design, a cab forward design will ...

locomotives. They were built between July and September 1929 and placed in service soon after construction. The AC-5 class was only slightly larger than the AC-4 class. The first locomotive of this class, number 4110, holds the dubious honor of being the first

cab forward locomotive to be scrapped when it befell this fate on February 3, 1953, at the railroad's

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, shops. The rest of the class were removed from service and scrapped by mid-1955. None of this class was preserved.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Southern Pacific class AC-05 AC-05 4-8-8-2 locomotives Baldwin locomotives Simple articulated locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1929 Steam locomotives of the United States Scrapped locomotives Standard gauge locomotives of the United States Freight locomotives Cab forward steam locomotives