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Southern Pacific Railroad’s MC-1 class of steam locomotive consisted of two locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in April 1909. They are the first two locomotives converted by Southern Pacific (SP) to run as cab forward locomotives.The first of these two number 4000 entered service on May 26 1909. It was rebuilt as a cab forward and reclassified as an MC-2 in June 1923. Another rebuild on June 4 1931 simpled it with uniform cylinders and reclassified it as an AC-1.
