Making the grade – To make sure this six-car train can successfully negotiate the demanding climb over Raton Pass, the Santa Fe has assigned an SD for each car, and a GP50 for the caboose. Always much more a passenger route than freight, my recollection is that Raton Pass was down to one mixed freight, one intermodal, and one Amtrak train each way in a 24 hour period. Here the eastbound mixed freight, train 804, has passed through Raton Tunnel at the summit, and is traversing the iconic curve at Wootton.
