On static display at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds (RailGiants Train Museum), Pomona, California
Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) number 5021 is an class 4-10-2steam locomotive built in 1926 by ALCO at their Schenectady, New York, shops. It is the only member of this class of SP locomotives to be preserved, and it is one of only five 3-cylinder locomotives preserved in North America.
It was designed to haul mixed freight and passenger trains over the Sierra Nevada range between northern California and Nevada. Later in its career, 5021 was shifted to service in Oregon, until its retirement in 1955. SP donated 5021 to the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society on March 8, 1956. It was fired up in 1961 and ran in the museums spur that it used to get its rolling stock there, but the Southern Pacific did not like this, so they were forced to pull the tracks in 1963. 5021 was stored in the ATSF´s roundhouse, while it was their, a Possible excursion career for the 5021 was being arranged by the Santa Fe, but the plans were dropped. After this, 5021 sat in Southern Pacific´s San Bernardino yard until 1975, when it was moved to the Southern Pacific Taylor Yard in Glendale, CA. Shortly after it was moved back to the RaiGiants Museum. when Southern Pacific 4449 was on display with the American Freedom Train in the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds.
5021 is on permanent display at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, California.