The Kansas City Chief A Roger Puta Photograph

The classiest profile in railroading in late 1965 was still Santa Fe’s four Warbonnet-wearing E6As. Built by EMC in the early years of World War II, by the mid-1960s they were assigned to servic... (more)

Late at night was a good time to visit Colorado & Southern’s Rice yard in Denver the late 1950s. You could set up your tripod out of the way of working railroaders. There was usually one of the ... (more)

Santa Fe F7A-B-B-B-A 314 eastbound Super Chief/El Capitan at Barstow, California. No photographer listed on slide.

In mid-1965, it was still possible to catch an Alco PA nosing out of Kansas City Union Station with Santa Fe train 7, the Fast Mail Express for Los Angeles. On April 25, the 65 is just getting und... (more)

A Santa Fe F passenger unit reduced to freight service pauses with a northbound at Bellville, Texas to swap crews just after 2:00 a.m. on July 19, 1971.

The westbound "Chief" arriving at Joliet.

Texas Chief No.15 coming in the station with F7(A) #47 and three 'B' units in the lead, with Alco PA-1 #64 watching the action. Photo taken from my slide collection. photographer J.B.King.

PA #58 and a companion booster, lay over at Fort Worth on April 01, 1961 between runs on Nos. 77-78. This Alco PA-1 was built in October 1948. Photo part of my collection, photographer Edward... (more)

Westbound Santa Fe train #1 the San Francisco Chief at Amarillo station with four Alco PA's led by number 58. Three Flexi-Vans flat cars of US Mail, two head end cars, three hi-level chair cars ... (more)

Santa Fe F7 38C leads the eastbound San Francisco Chief past the siding at Christie, California, on April 24, 1971. The train only has a week of operation left before the start of Amtrak. Fujichr... (more)

A bluebonnet F rests at Hamlin in this shot from my collection. No photographer listed on slide.

Amtrak Train #4 , the SUPER CHIEF, rounds the reverse curves at Darling, Arizona, on April 16, 1972. Six F-units power the fast moving train. Darling is a crossover location about 13 miles east of... (more)

On Friday, April 24, 1964, F7s 330L-329A-327A idle at the point of a passenger special touring the line promoting hi-level passenger equipment, bumped down from the EL CAPITAN, that soon would be ... (more)

A Santa Fe northbound freight passes through Cameron, Texas, on March 6, 1974, behind an A-B-B-B set of F-units. Lead unit 332L was one of seven former red/silver passenger cab units to receive th... (more)