Rail service was central to early Dodge City’s prosperity. When the railhead was established here in 1872, Dodge City became an ideal place for shipping buffalo hides east on the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. After buffalo herds were hunted to near extinction in the mid-1870s, the cattle industry became Dodge City’s major source of income, and with a quarantine line just east of here, this was the easternmost point for shipping Texas longhorns by boxcar until 1885, when Kansas was cut off from the cattle drives after the line moved west to the Colorado border. Engine no. 1139 was built in 1903 by Baldwin Locomotive Works at a cost of $19,846.98, with a boiler pressure of 200 pounds per square inch, a heating surface of 2,864 square feet, a water capacity of 8,500 gallons, an oil capacity of 3,300 gallons, a weight of 305,200 pounds, and approximately 1,000,000 miles of travel. On July 7, 1954, the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company donated the engine, coal car, and tender to Boot Hill Museum, and E.R. Kemper moved it ten blocks on tracks to the site where the Great Western Hotel replica now stands after taking out a million-dollar insurance policy through Lloyd’s of London for the five-hour task. In 1978, the engine was moved by railroad tracks to the east end of the museum next to the Front Street replica to make room for the Great Western, and in early 2000 Ball and Son movers of Belleville, Kansas, relocated it 200 feet to its present site during a two-day operation using a complex set of dollies and wheels.