Water, fuel, sand –- essential to keep the wheels rolling. Here on an October evening one of a handful of workers at the Argentine engine terminal service rack supplies water to a Santa Fe PA-1 probably being readied for evening departure on the San Francisco Chief. By 1965, train 1 (westbound) and its eastbound counterpart and the Fast Mail Express are some of the last Santa Fe passenger runs still assigned to the big Alcos.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
