Santa Fe train ninety four is arriving Amarillo Texas in 1932. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The sun lights West Texas on fire as an eastbound loaded coal train pulls onto single track to continue its journey down the Red River Valley Subdivision.

AMARILLO TX Sept 24 1988 — Santa Fe C30-7 8065 and BNSF SD40-2 6786 are serviced and ready to go on the next available train. GE built the unit (s/n 42376) in April 1979 with an air conditioning... (more)

AMARILLO TX Sept 11 1983 — Santa Fe GP7us 2208 and 2179 await an assignment at the engine facility. EMD built the unit as GP7 2740 (s/n 16384) in August 1952 and delivered it in zebra stripe pai... (more)

AMARILLO TX Oct 8 1988 — Burlington Northern GP38-2 2151 awaits an assignment. EMD built the unit as Fort Worth & Denver 2151 in June 1980. Note different color rectangular patch above the front... (more)

It's a hot, sticky, and muggy late evening in the fields outside Panhandle, TX as BNSF 695 leads a local into a transfer yard for the Panhandle & Western.

Few odd ball's sit around the yard in Amarillo Texas. Including the Ns 1072.

AMARILLO TX July 6 1986 — Santa Fe GP35u 2888 leads a covered hopper train on the Transcon south of Amarillo. EMD built the unit in June 1965 as GP35 1388. It was delivered in blue body with yel... (more)

AMARILLO TX Aug 6 1982 — Santa Fe B36-7 7498 and a Frisco SD45 await a crew and an assignment. GE built the unit in November 1980. It was delivered in Yellow Warbonnet. It entered the GE lease f... (more)

Photo by Tony Lanier, from my collection.

Repairs are being made to Santa Fe covered hopper No. 315510 in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

ATSF 1132 heads west into Amarillo with twenty seven cars, in 1936. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.

AMARILLO TX July 6 1986 — Santa Fe SD45u 5394 leads seven other locomotives westbound on the Transcon south of city center. This was the first Santa Fe painted in the Kodachrome scheme. The expe... (more)

AMARILLO TX Oct 8 1988 — Locomotive Management Services B39-8E 8507 (s/n 45416) leads a mixed freight near city center. My photo.

Santa Fe FM H12-44 558 sits along with several of its sisters in the servicing area at the Roads Amarillo TX yard in the spring of 1974. This was near the end for these units on the Santa Fe