Southern Pacific 975

Southern Pacific 975

Power type	Steam
Builder	American Locomotive Company, Brooks plant
Serial number	57978
Build date	January 1918
Configuration	2-10-2
Gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)
Driver size	64 in diameter
Length	94 ft 10 in (29 m)
Width	10 ft 5 in (3.2 m)
Total weight	397,500 lb.
Boiler pressure	200 psi
Cylinder size	27.5 in dia × 32 in stroke
Tractive effort	63,300 lb.
Career	Southern Pacific Railroad
Class	F-1
Number	975
Delivered	March 1918
Retired	1957
Disposition	static display at Illinois Railway Museum

Southern Pacific Railroad number 975 is a 2-10-2 type of steam locomotive, built in 1918 by American Locomotive Company at the former Brooks Locomotive Works plant in Dunkirk, New York. It entered service on Southern Pacific subsidiary Texas and New Orleans Railroad (T&NO) in March 1918, where it worked until its retirement in 1957.

The T&NO donated the locomotive to the city of Beaumont, Texas, on February 2 1957. 975 is now preserved in static display at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. It is one of only two Southern Pacific locomotives of this wheel arrangement to be preserved; the other is 982 at Union Station, Minute Maid Baseball Park in Houston, Texas.

References

• Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5. 
• Illinois Railway Museum. Roster of Equipment: Southern Pacific 975. Retrieved on April 3, 2006.