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Interestingly enough, according to Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail, the Santa Fe was impressed with their ex-N&W Y3's steaming abilities that they were considering mounting the Y3 boilers on some 3751 class Northerns.

Rusty

Except,,,,,,,,,,,N&W "boilers", including the firebox, were designed/modified/improved to burn West Virginia Pocahontas Range, VERY high BTU, coal. I wonder how well they would have worked with the Santa Fe Bunker C oil fuel?

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