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Locomotive Park

Andy Devine Ave. at 1st St., Kingman, AZ
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Directly across the street from both Mr D'z Restaurant and the Powerhouse Museum is Locomotive Park where the AT&SF steam engine #3759 is on display. A handy set of stairs lets visitors climb aboard the locomotive. Built in 1928 the steam engine pulled passengers from Los Angeles to Kansas City traveling more than 2,500,000 miles in 20 years.

You’ll find it at Beale Street and Andy Devine Ave. (Route 66).

A caboose brings up the back of this short train. The steam engine is on the National Register of Historic Places. The engine was a gift to the city in 1957 and thirty years later, in 1987, the railroad donated caboose No. 999520. Twelve hundred people used a rope to move the locomotive forward to make room for the caboose behind it. This park was a former rodeo grounds and also a ballpark.

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Vintage Advertising Highlights

ENGINE #3759
KINGMAN, ARIZONA
When the Santa Fe Railroad converted to diesel fuel, this mighty "Iron Horse" of the coal burning days was given to the city of Kingman.

NOTE: Just about any tourist attraction could qualify for a postcard, as this one for Engine #3759 illustrates. The crossing sign carries distances to Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas, NV.
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Photo(s): 2013