Locomotive and tender

A. Description: 3700 class, oil burner, without stack modifications for tunnels

B. Name/number: A.T.S.F. number to be determined, 3746 was used on the California Limited in 1946; need to find prototype of Balboa model with the same appearance on the front of the tender.

Balboa3700Balboa3700tender

C. HO model: Balboa, brass (this may be a “nonesuch” model without a prototype; it may have 63″ drivers instead of the correct 69″ ones); Sunset, brass; Division Point, brass.

D. Details to be added to the model: paint and lettering

E. Major references: Iron Horses of the Santa Fe, Worley; “Santa Fe’s 3700 Class 4-8-2s,” Kistler, SFRH&MS Warbonnet, 4th Qtr. 1998; Santa Fe 3700 Class 4-8-2 Mountain Pictorial, Ainsworth & Karam, Jr.; photo of 3743 with tender right-rear view, P. 165, Steel Rails Through California, Kistler.

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