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Southern Pacific Railroad’s AC-8 class of cab forward steam locomotives was the fifth of SP’s 4-8-8-2 classes. They were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1939.The AC-8s were the first to receive the larger redesigned cab windows as standard equipment that were retrofitted onto earlier AC class locomotives. The locomotives were only slightly larger than their AC-7 predecessors.On November 19 1941 No. 4193 caught on fire.