Santa Fe Locomotive No. 3759

The big 4-8-4 in the park is Santa Fe engine 3759, built by Baldwin in 1928 and classed by the railroad as a Mountain type. For a quarter century it pulled passenger trains between Los Angeles and Kansas City, taking on water at Kingman, and it logged more than 2.5 million miles before steam gave way to diesel in 1953. Santa Fe gave it to Kingman in 1957. To move it in, crews laid a temporary rail across Route 66, eased the giant onto its slab, and pulled the track up within the hour.

What the plaque says

Presented to the city of Kingman as an historical monument in 1967 by the Santa Fe Railway Company., This "Mountain Type" coal-burning steam locomotive was built in 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was rebuilt and converted to oil fuel in 1941., No. 3759 was on the passenger run between Los Angeles and Kansas City for many years, making ten round trips monthly. Average east-bound speed was 54.3 MPH; west-bound 60.2 MPH. Kingman was a "water stop" on the east-bound run. No.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — 0.3 mi
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.
• Oatman — 22 mi
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Hackberry General Store — 23 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Locomotive Park — steps away
• Wish You Were Here — steps away
• Powerhouse — steps away
• Wagon Route — steps away