Steam Engine #2913 Following WWII, the railway systems in the United States started developing newer, more cost-effective engines. They also slowly moved away from the use of way cars (also known as cabooses) on trains. The smaller railway systems were swallowed up by the bigger names. Now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, more informally known as the BNSF, is the major railway system in the United States. It was aroudn the 1950s that the then AT&SF Railway gifted Fort Madison with both a Steam Engine and a Way Car. Steam Engine 2913 is located in Riverview Park. It was gifted to the City of Fort Madison on the 72nd anniversary of the Santa Fe’s first through train to Chicago from Kansas City. The 708,000 pound engine, which was built in 1944, had been used to haul war equipment in the western United States.