A pair of old and badly faded Santa Fe warbonnet C44-9W's lead job L-HLA8361-02I westbound back into their yard at West Quincy, MO.

A pair of old and badly faded Santa Fe warbonnet C44-9W's lead job L-HLA8361-02I westbound back to their yard at West Quincy as they pass through Santuzza, MO.

A pair of old and badly faded Santa Fe warbonnet C44-9W's lead job L-HLA836 westbound back to their yard at West Quincy as they pass through Alexandria, MO.

A pair of faded Santa Fe "Warbonnet" C44-9W's find a break in the shadows as they lead BNSF train L-HLA836 southbound through Keokuk, IA. on their way back to Quincy, Illinois.

A pair of faded Santa Fe "Warbonnet" C44-9W's lead BNSF train L-HLA836 southbound through Ft. Madison, IA. on their way back to Quincy, Illinois.

With the summer sun setting along the Mississippi River, the Santa Fe shines bright as it treads into Montrose, IA, with a grain elevator perfectly placed on the Illinois side of the river.

A former workhorse of the Santa Fe, BNSF C44-9W #685 still gets her work in almost 30 years after entering service, seen here on point of BNSF's high priority manifest from Denver, CO to Laurel, M... (more)

A tired looking Superfleet dash 9 leads an empty garbage train past Horsethief on a hot evening, after waiting at Avery for a few hours due to a slide fence activation.

BNSF 685 in warbonnet paint leading a mixed freight by Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Ky.

BNSF 675 in Santa Fe warbonnet paint is street running in LaGrange, Ky. LaGrange was ready for July 4th celebration as a pedestrian impatiently runs across the tracks in front of the train.

Seeing these units from one of the final orders of locomotives delivered to the Santa Fe before the merger is always bittersweet. Nineteen years ago this was the pride of the Superfleet.

It's just a few days from Independence Day and Main Street in La Grange is decorated accordingly.. Behind a pair of Santa Fe -9's, Q573 breaks the silence and disrupts traffic for a few minutes on... (more)

K657 is southbound into Leipsic with two BNSF warbonnets in full ATSF paint. It is sure nice to see a pair of these in 2013.