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Pennsylvania 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" Locomotive #7639 class N2
In 1919 the USRA allocated 130 "Santa Fe-Heavy" locomotives to the PRR. These locomotives had 63" diameter drivers, 30 x 32 cylinders, a 190 psi boiler pressure, they exerted 73,829 pounds of tractiveeffort and each weighed 384,225 pounds. ALCO built one hundred of these 2-10-2s and Baldwin built the other thirty.
Back in 1989, WP Pacific No 7641 arrives at Chinchpada with a train from Surat. The prototypes of these locos were built by Baldwin in 1947. This one was built in India in 1965.
A lovely photo of the steam locomotive WP 7643 hauling the Sabarmati Express from Ahmedabad to Faizabad captured at Baroda in February 1990 This locomotive belongs to a batch of 73 locomotives that were manufactured by CLW in 1965.