According to the timetable, No.2, The Royal Gorge, will have 5 minutes to load and unload passengers and baggage and take on water before its 4:35 P.M. departure for Denver from the Santa F... (more)

With the Austin city limit a mile behind it, the Texas Special heads north. Its thirteen cars testify to the fact that rail was still the way to travel in the summer of 1947.

Dallas Union Station was a busy place in 1948. One summer afternoon the north and west Texas section of the Sunshine Special leaves on its way to St. Louis. The train will later be known as the ... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 No.3776, the first of its class, built by Baldwin in 1941, has just left the station in Amarillo headed for Pampa with train No.2 The Scout.