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Santa Fe Locomotive 132 A Q-125 remembrance of the Cyrus K Holliday by Scholz
Santa Fe Locomotive 132 A Q-125 remembrance of the Cyrus K Holliday by Richard Scholz
Soft Cover
Copyright 2005
56 Pages
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 3
Introduction 5
I. Locomotives for Raton Pass 7
II. Saved by Santa Fe 17
III. A Locomotive in Demand 29
IV. A Return to Days of Yore 45
Cyrus K. Holliday Exhibition List 53
Bibliography 56
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Locomotive 132 is preserved in fully restored glory by the Kansas State Historical Society and is on display in the Kansas Museum of History at Topeka. Her origin, history and long and varied service with the Santa Fe merits a detailed remembrance, presented here in the work of the late Richard E. Scholz, Santa Fe historian extraordinaire.
Originally constructed in 1880, No. 132 would undergo a series of rebuildings and significant modifications over her long service life. Moving from main line heavy-duty freight service, to branch line way freight and switching, to lowly roundhouse shifter, her life after active service was fortunately extended and included many years as the Santa Fe's premiere exhibition locomotive under the name of the Cyrus K. Holliday.
The 132 is admittedly not alone in its distinction. Several other Class 1 railroads serving west of Chicago, such as the Great Northern, the Burlington and the Rock Island, had at various times also sponsored rejuvenated steam relics to serve in a promotional goodwill capacity for their respective companies. However, the story of Santa Fe No. 132 is unique for how this historic locomotive was ultimately and accurately restored to its original 1880 appearance; this after years of loosely representing that same time period in a manner that was partly educational and partly showmanship.
My interest in the 132 came by way of both family and friendship. In January 1936, my father, Lawrence J. Brasher, became the first Assistant Supervisor of Diesel Locomotives, System, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The position title was the precursor to what soon became known as Diesel Maintainer on the railroad. Dad passed away in 1972 and it was not until 1998 that I discovered in his files a document that I subsequently called "Dad's Memoir." This became the genesis for a book, The One-Spot Twins: The Story of the Santa Fe's Pioneering Diesel-Electric Locomotive Number 1, published by the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society in 2002.
While researching Twins, I met and became a friend of Richard Scholz, a retired employee of the Santa Fe's railroad shops at Topeka. Richard had compiled a price less archives of documents regarding Santa Fe steam locomotives, much of which he had personally salvaged when the material was discarded by the railway at the end of the steam era.
Following Richard's untimely death, I was privileged to participate in the inventory of his archives. During this process, I discovered two unfinished projects that he had undertaken. One of them was a handwritten monograph that discussed the history of Locomotive 132 in detail. Richard had served as a major consultant to the restoration of No. 132 at the Kansas Museum of History, and it appeared that he had hoped to eventually publish his information on the engine.
The material Richard collected and prepared on the 132 has been edited and expanded to create this publication. The Santa Fe System Office of Mechanical Engineer files, official Santa Fe Locomotive Specifications, Santa Fe test reports, numerous other historical documents, letters, charts, maps and basic source material quoted in this narrative are from the Richard E. Scholz Archives. This collection has been donated by the Scholz family to the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society.
It is intended for this booklet to serve as a precursor to a major work on Santa Fe Railway history. While working with Richard and his archives, I came to the realization that the full story of the Santa Fe's dominance in steam locomotive perfection and the railway's influence on diesel development has not been told. It was then that the seeds of this endeavor were sown. Richard's mother, Eleonore, and his brother, Robert, generously allowed me unfettered research access to the archives where I found the bulk of the basic material to be used for The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's Pioneering Journey to Dieselization, a book slated for publication by Signature Press.
In the meantime, I would like to think that Santa Fe Locomotive 132 would have been a better work had Richard lived to participate in its final editing. However, I hope the following will do justice to a historic locomotive that he favored.
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