From the Silver Rails Gallery Collection, Don Morice photo: A Santa Fe passenger train flies through La Plata at speed on a bright morning.

A interesting collection of EMD oddballs(and one GE B23-7) powers a short Barstow bound freight as it ascends upgrade to the Summit on a moody morning.

With a crescendo of sound two Santa Fe types lead a freight of some thirty cars out of Raton. Another 2-10-2 is pushing. Raton Pass lies ahead.

Santa Fe LA to Ft Worth train QLAFW gets the green light to run around a lessor priority train at Daggett, CA, junction with UP exLA and Salt Lake main

Santa Fe caboose 999727 is on display at the Grand Canyon Railroad station in Williams, Arizona. The beautifully restored caboose looks like it is fresh from the factory. A reminder of an era when... (more)

Pure SF 2944, BN 2337, SF 2229, BNSF 7314 and BNSF 4843 sit idle at the former SF Mobest Yard in Phoenix on a clear April afternoon.

An aerial view of the Santa Fe diesel locomotive repair shops on the east end of Barstow yard.

spanking clean "class" unit 5000 leads a westbound making a setout at Pico Rivera yard passing Bandini station

Santa Fe 5643 east has SP 7319, SP 8491 and SF 6340 preparing to leave the Barstow yard on a clear October morning. In the pre-merger days of late 1984 the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific were excha... (more)

Two freight trains meet at track speed in the heart of Crozier Canyon east of Valentine, Arizona, on the afternoon of March 6, 1996. At this point, both Santa Fe and Burlington Northern were subsi... (more)

With 7402 leading 7400 and 7401, Santa Fe's three B39-8s, the only three built, roll the 1-198-22, the hottest Chicago to Los Angeles train, past the A Yard. The train will continue on to Los Ang... (more)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe EMD FP45 No. 90 rests at the Corwith Yard engine facility near Chicago, Illinois, on Labor Day weekend in 1991. This locomotive certainly had its share of renumberings ... (more)

Santa Fe 5053 West leads NW 6115 and two GP-30s downhill around the famous Tehachapi Loop. Soon the 5053 will be exiting the tunnel below while the rear-end of the train is still on the track abo... (more)

There is still a little bit of snow on Mt. Baldy as ATSF 5657 leads an F-45 and an Intermodal train east through the cut at Cajon Summit.