Travelling between Monument and Palmer Lake, a Denver=bound Santa Fe manifest negotiates an S-curve on Colorado’s Joint Line.

A Santa Fe caboose punctuates a string of empty CWR cars leaving Palmer Lake, Colorado. The rock formation in the upper left is Palmer Lake’s Elephant Rock.

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

The open door policy indicates that the lead GP50 on this Santa Fe freight is giving the crew trouble as the train passes through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

ATSF 5704 has returned to home rails, painted in a spectacular rendition of the bicentennial colors it once wore for the 1976 anniversary, as it rolls west on a Z train ultimately bound for the So... (more)

5704 Gets Its Kicks Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway No. 5704, an EMD SD45-2 built in 1973, makes its triumphant return to Southern California in its gleaming bicentennial paint scheme as... (more)

After waiting for a Denver-bound train to clear the Joint Line’s single-track segment, a Santa Fe trainmore)

After a Denver-bound train. has passed, a Santa Fe crewman leaves his roll-by position and returns to tis power, which will... (more)

The American Bicentennial is just a year off, and Santa Fe’s fifth Bicentennial locomotive, SD45-2 5704, has still not been repainted. By this point, ATSF 5700-5703 were all painted and usually... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Recently restored Santa Fe SD45-2 5704 sits at Kansas City's Union Station, looking amazing in its newly applied Bicentennial paint. And how often do we railfans get a chance to photograph a loco... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Recently restored ATSF 5704 sitting at Kansas City Union Station with some storms building in the background.