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Santa Fe Class 2900

Santa Fe 2900 Class

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Santa Fe 2900 Class was a series of 30 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives built between 1943 and 1944 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (ATSF) and pulled freight and passenger trains until retirement in the early to late-1950s.

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“Santa Fe Class 2900” enters the record as santa Fe 2900 Class. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Santa and Class can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Santa and Class.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1943 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Santa Fe Class 2900” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.