After Keldeo finds a portal to our world he finds himself in a cold spring morning on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad along their transcontinental mainline between Chicago and Las Angles the city of the stars on the route of their legendary Chief and Super Chief streamlined passenger trains from the West to the Midwest in 1951 several years after the end of World War 2 in 1945 as the post war boom was in full swing for the country. Presently Keldeo is in La Plata, Missouri on the AT&SF's Marceline Subdivision which starts in Fort Madison, Iowa and tentmates at Kansas City, Missouri where it marks the end of the Marceline sub and the beginning of the Emporia Subdivision which travels through much of Kansas which will later connect to the Panhandle sub followed by the Hereford, Clovis, Gallup, Seligman, Needles, Cajon, and finally the San Bernardino subdivisions featuring ever changing terrain from mountains, deserts, plains, canyons, and many other geological changes along this route.

The 1950s also represented the last years of steam power as steam locomotives were being retired in favor of the newer and less maintenance intensive Diesel-electric locomotives assigned to the passenger trains like the EMD's F3s, F7s, FTs, E8s, E6s, E1s, NW2 Switchers, GP7s, and many other diesels models from the Electro Motive Division of General Motors. Other diesels from two other locomotive builders that sent diesels to the Santa Fe are Fairbanks-Morse with their Diesel Switchers and C-Liners, and the American Locomotive Company's striking ALCO PA1 and PB1 units with S-2s, RS-2s, DL-109, DL-110, RSD-7s, RSD-15s, S4s, and many other diesels from ALCO. However steam was still plentiful in the early 50s as Keldeo watches a modern Santa Fe 3460 Class 4-6-4 Hudson built the Baldwin Locomotive Works in their Philadelphia shops in 1937 to pull passenger trains like The Scout, the Grand Canyon Limited, Tourist Flyer, Chicagoan, Kansas Cityan, and many other named trains of the railroad. This Hudson's number is 3463 the last 3460 class Hudson made for the company and she's on the head end of Santa Fe's train #3 the eastbound California Limited from Las Angles Union Station to Chicago's Deborn Station. But the California Limited's time running out because in 3 years time the train be withdrawn from service on June 15 of 1945 fading into railroad history, however, the 3463 on the other hand wouldn't fad away as the engine would be retired in 1953 after 16 years of devoted service to railroad as her siblings were sent the scraper's torch, but Santa Fe saved 3463 from scrap along with its older Santa Fe Hudson cousin 3450 and was donated to the city of Topeka, Kanas the birthplace of the Santa Fe and was put on display in Topeka's southeastern part of the Kansas Expocentre and for years the engine fallen victim to the elements.

However today 3463's lucky is changing as a group of railfans from the University of Minnesota is working to restore this AT&SF passenger thoroughbred to operational condition and is looking for a place to restore and maintain this living link to Topeka's long history with the Santa Fe. When the restoration is completed the 3463 will become the only operating modern 4-6-4 Hudson in the midwestern United States in the country and a living link to railroading's golden past when train travel was the way to go along with a simpler time.