The AC-9 was one of two Southern Pacific Railroad’s articulated steam locomotive class that ran with a forward smokebox after 1920 (The other articulated locomotives fall into the cab-forward design). Twelve AC-9 class locomotives were built by Lima in 1939 and were Southern Pacific’s largest and heaviest steam engines partly a consequence of low quality coal the engines were designed to burn.
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