Digital Live Sound Video: A side by side pacing sequence of a steam train at The Oak Park Society of Model Engineers H.O Scale model railroad club.

I photographed this digital live sound pacing video of a Bachman Spectrum Series H.O scale Baldwin U.S.R.A (World War One era) 2-10-2 light freight service locomotive, during a recent May 2010 visit to The Oak Park Society of Model Engineers H.O Scale model railroad club.

While I was born too late to actually see these locomotives in day to day service, this model gives one and idea of how they must have looked like on the mainlines before dieselization on Our Nation's railroads prior to the 1950's.

These locomotives were introduced around 1917 by a goverment agency known as The United States Railway Administration. These modern designs were intended to augment and eventually replace America's aging and outdated fleet of railroad steam locomotives in case of shortages associated with our recent joining of combat action overseas in Europe during World War One.These locomotives were so successful, that eventually many more were built, and in some cases new ones were actually copys of the original designs later on. The 2-10-2 type shown here, was intended for freight service.

The Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe owned the first 2-10-2 types in America, and somehow this wheel arrangement became known as the "Santa Fe" type. Other railroads around the world refered to these as "ten Coupled" types.