ATSF 1226 was a San Bernadino rebuild from an SW9. 1226 was eventually sold to Amtrak.

Santa Fe doodle-bug M177 gets a rare appearance out in the sun as she has been staged in front of the pavilion area for the annual Depot Days at Travel Town. Western Pacific Consolidation 26 is pa... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Life Savor display train shoves back on the house track as it begins its journey to LA.

PURCELL OK April 29 1979 — Santa Fe GP20 3154 awaits a crew to continue its journey with a mixed freight in tow. My photo.

Morning in Elliston, MT, on the west side of Mullan Pass, finds the 686 East taking siding. Behind the Dash 9 are a Santa FE GP60, MRL 348 (an ex NW SD45) and an SD40-2 in Heritage I colors. Speak... (more)

ATSF Baldwin 3523 leads south bound at Del Mar California in 1933. From my collection, Otto Conrad Perry photo.

Out on the road again for the first time in years, ATSF class locomotive 3751 gets a little bit of sun before it begins its trip back from Fullerton to Los Angeles. Sadly a diesel had to be put in... (more)

The old Burlington Route Long Branch stretched 830 miles from Lincoln, NE to Huntley, MT where it joined Northern Pacific's mainline. In more recent days the route became a high density coal corri... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP40X No. 3801 rests in the afternoon sunshine of August 30, 1986, at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois. Flared radiators are a feature of the ... (more)

At Ancona, Illinois, the former Santa Fe main line makes a long right hand curve westward through town. On April 26, 1997, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train flies over the ... (more)

NORMAN OK Oct 8 1980 — Santa Fe U36C 8729 is at the head end of train 513 as it passes the Amtrak station. The mixed freight is northbound and running at the timetable-dictated 45 mph. My photo.... (more)

Only two GP40X's had been painted in the merger scheme, one the 3805 and the other 3803, which had already been repainted back into Santa Fe's standard blue and yellow by September 1986, when t... (more)

Having worked the mainline trains for the day, #108 heads back to the barn for the night.

AMARILLO TX July 6 1986 — Santa Fe SD45u 5394 leads seven other locomotives westbound on the Transcon south of city center. This was the first Santa Fe painted in the Kodachrome scheme. The expe... (more)

Santa Fe hot shot. Four GP60's with a pig train. With a new GP60M out front. (Tom Ellis photo).