Locomotive Park hosts one of the last Steam Powered Locomotives used by the Santa Fe Line. Engine 3759 would serve the line for 24 years, from 1929 to 1953. Its general run was from Kansas City to Los Angeles, a journey of 1800 miles which it did ten times per month. Over the course of its history the train would travel over 2.5 million miles. It was generally a passenger train. It was brought out of retirement for one last rune in 1955, the final steam engine run on the Santa Fe Line. The engine weighed under 500,000 pounds and cost over $100,000 when it was first built. It was donated to Kingman City in 1957. The train ran through Kingman and Kingman served as a watering location for the eastward bound train. A temporary track was laid to move the train to its current location. This is the shortest lived track on the Santa Fe Line lasting just less than an hour.
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