Since no one else seems to be mentioning this...

[Gramp]

Thx, Overmod. 

[Overmod]

Gramp

Did Santa Fe call their 4-8-4's Northerns or a different name?

They called them by their class numbers: 3751, 3765, 3776, and 2900.  I think I've seen a couple of references to their wheel arrangement being 'Northern type' but I don't have cites.  They certainly didn't have their own proprietary name for the wheel arrangement, as so many other roads did.

[Gramp]

I'm trying to recall.  Did Santa Fe call their 4-8-4's Northerns or a different name?

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The size and power of Santa Fe's 4-8-4's and 2-10-4's goes a long way in explaining why Santa Fe never went back to articulated designs after the misbegotten freaks of the 1910's and 1920's.

[Gramp]

That's super!

[kgbw49]

That is a massive 4-8-4.

4-8-4s are all big locomotives, but those 2900s are massive, and the 8-axle tender makes them even more so.

At 119' 11" in total length, they were within 5 feet of the SP Cab-Forward 4-8-8-2 classes, the C&O H-8 2-6-6-6, and the NP Z-5 2-8-8-4.

[seppburgh2]

Thanks for shaing!

[pennytrains]

Yeah baby!  

[Overmod]

2926 moves under steam.

(!!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gO_s0qcloc

Not very far... yet.

Not very fast...yet.

But the promise is oh, so there.  As is the quilling.