Tags: Locomotive.
Southern Railway 1401 is a steam locomotive that is the sole survivor of Southern Railway’s Ps-4 class. Today it is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.. It has a Pacific-type or 4-6-2 (Whyte notation) wheel arrangement and was built in 1926 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) at their Richmond works. It pulled Southern’s highest-level passenger trains from 1926 until Dieselization in the early 1950s mostly on Southern’s Charlotte Division.
