Class 102 (Locobase 12068)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 18, p.150,. Works number was 13361 in April 1893. See also [external link] . Originally built by Baldwin to display at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, this tank was sold to the New Mexico Coal & Railway Company. But apparently the engine was sold to the A&SM before it was delivered - the tender description in the specs shows Baldwin's name being struck and changed to Alamagordo & Sacramento Mountain.

The A&SM was chartered to connect the newly founded Alamagordo with the projected "Cloudcroft" resort farther up in the mountains. The Mountain Monthly website -- [external link], accessed 8 September 2007 -- presents a long article about the real objective, which was to cart logs down from the summit of the Sacramento Mountains. To achieve this goal, the railroad had to ascend 4,000 ft over a winding 26-mile line to a maximum of 8,700 ft, the highest elevation reached by a standard-gauge railroad. The line was finally torn up in 1947.

When the A&SM was absorbed by the El Paso & Southwestern, the 102 was renumbered 202. In 1906, the EP & SW sold the tank to the Ferrocarril Nacazari, the latter located in Sonora State in Mexico.