On New Years Eve '92, four less than year old C40's led daily Los Angeles to Kansas City train 893 up Cajon Pass with the snow covered San Gabriel's in the distance.

Freshly painted and rebuilt Santa Fe SDF40 No. 5264 leads an eastbound manifest at Cable Crossover. Santa Fe acquired the big EMD from Amtrak and converted it to a freight locomotive.

As the sun sets on another day in Los Angeles, another work day on the famed 4-8-4 based here, Santa Fe 3751, concludes for the steam crew of the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society. Curren... (more)

A trio of factory new C40-8Ws keads a westbound freight towards Esperanza through box canyon.

Santa Fe 813 West departs Stockton, CA, as it passes the famous tower at the crossing of SP's Valley Line and ATSF's Stockton Sub. The tower has since been demolished.

Rerailing of a Santa Fe SD45B is underway at San Bernardino.

Approach, Clear, Galaxy.

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Ancient Semaphores guard the the galactic core of the Milky Way as i... (more)

A Santa Fe westbound roars up the big cut at Bissell at the north edge of Edwards Air Force Base. The lead SD45u is showing off fresh paint.

An eastbound Santa Fe freight train climbs through Cajon Pass.

A rare mileage inspection move at Fullerton Station. The FP45 “queens” recently renumbered to the 90 series as the new Super Fleet GP60Ms come into the scene.

A typically then-eclectic lash-up leads a Santa Fe westbound freight train in October 1976. ATSF FP45 5943, SD40 5006 and an F45 approach the crew change point in San Bernardino, California, afte... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight is about to hit the diamonds at Colton, California, on February 19, 1986. This train, led by U36C 8755, is on Santa Fe's Third District, heading to Los Angeles, and i... (more)

Five locomotives, four models, two builders, one railroad ... An eastbound Santa Fe freight is just six miles from the summit of its crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains as it pops out of one of th... (more)

An 86-car eastbound Santa Fe manifest approaches the city limits of Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Glorietta Subdivision. Looking at Google Earth, this once wide-open shot is now treed in.

Built in the Spanish Mission style, the 1899 AT&SF station in Las Vegas, New Mexico greeted many of the Santa Fe’s long-distance passenger trains. Now, it exists to serve the Southwest Chief<... (more)