An "almost A-B-A" set of Santa Fe GP60s winds around Tehachapi Loop. Things are not quite as they may seem. The GP60 trio is actually in helper service, so at this point they are assis... (more)

The brakeman on BNSF 146 radios the engineer on the BNSF 122 to move into the BNSF yard to pick up another string of cars for switching.

BNSF 146 and BNSF 122 prepare to head back into the yard in San Diego to pick up another string of cars to switch. In the background is the the big United States Navy shipyard.

Like a red-tipped arrow, Santa Fe GP60M 111 leads a westbound downgrade toward Seligman, as seen from the old Route 66 overpass. Just around the curve in the distance, the original mainline via Pi... (more)

Yesterday (03/17/2023)'s BNSF First Watson has finished its work at the El Segundo refinery, and had lunch, and is now on its way back to Torrance, where it will do more customer switching before ... (more)

Now relegated to local service and awaiting its next assignment, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway GP60M 106 is the former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 106, built in May 1990. This locomotive is... (more)

A matched pair of GP60Ms in dynamics slow their train on approach to a red signal further down the line. These two locomotives were once part of Santa Fe's "Super Fleet", but now they... (more)

Led by EMD GP60M No. 125, Santa Fe’s 791 train enters Houlihan’s Curve west of Chillicothe, Illinois, as it quickly descends Edelstein Hill on May 11, 1991.

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed 63 GP60Ms, all for the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. They were the first new locomotives delivered in the Santa Fe's then-new "Superfleet&quo... (more)

Santa Fe hot shot. Four GP60's with a pig train. With a new GP60M out front. (Tom Ellis photo).

BNSF's Chewelah Turn M-CWHSPO heads south through Valley, WA on their return back to Spokane with an all ex-ATSF set of A-B-B-B-A GP60's.

It’s a stark winter day in central Illinois as a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train, powered by five EMD GP60Ms, rolls west of Chillicothe on the short climb over Edelstein Hill on February 16,... (more)

L TWI6611 02I, the Aberdeen Local rounds the curve into Bristol, SD on a very humid afternoon with BNSF 112, 1616 and 162.

Glory days on the Santa Fe As GP60m 113 leads a solid set of warbonnets out of Abo Canyon at Scholle NM in July 1991

A-B-B-A warbonnets
A westbound Santa Fe piggyback train crosses Abo Arroyo on Bridge 871.7 in Abo Canyon between Scholle and Sais, New Mexico, on June 2, 1995. Bridge 871.7 is the third... (more)