Santa Fe 9537, painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railway (a merger that was ultimately denied), leads an eastbound freight at May, on Santa Fe... (more)
SF30-C 9537 rounds the high speed curve west of Seligman. The double track mainline is split apart at this point, on the Santa Fe trans-con.
A Santa Fe train passes the station sign for May, in Riverside, California, on October 2, 1986. The lead locomotive is an SF30C, which is what the Santa Fe named their rebuilt U36Cs.
Ya'll laugh at me for my comments about clouds and cloud gods; this is what a normal summer's morning looks like in southeast Texas. We had to leave Houston to get to Bellville NO LATER than 9AM;... (more)