Looking out of Super Chief / El Capitan’s FP45, Train 18 is meeting westbound Train 23 the “Grand Canyon” behind two F units at Canyoncito, N.M. on March 7, 1968. Ahead for the Super is t... (more)

For several years following the great western mergers of the 90s just about anything could show up as power. Out here on the Transcon, it was always best to have a warbonnet or blue and yellow in ... (more)

A derailment has been pushed aside to allow track reconstruction and the passage of Train 17, Super Chief / El Capitan led by two FP45’s at Ribera, N.M. Jan. 16, 1969.

Santa Fe’s eastbound Super Chief, Train 18, had to go in the siding at Blanchard, N.M. to clear for the much heavier unit coal train, operating from York Canyon, N.M. to Kaiser Steel at Fontana,... (more)

Santa Fe GE C30-7 No. 8080, still dressed in SPSF merger “Kodachrome” colors rolls a westbound freight through Chalender, Arizona, on the afternoon of April 20, 1990. The San Francisco Peaks n... (more)

ATSF 540 is west of Flagstaff, AZ in May of 1994.

A Roger Puta Photograph

MELROSE NM May 25 1980 -- ATSF F45 5903, two SD26s and another cowl unit lead a westbound mixed freight onto the single track toward Belen and its next crew change.

A Santa Fe passenger train filmed from the Roosevelt Road overpass. I do not remember the time of day or direction the train was going. Kodachrome II film

Into the setting sun comes BNSF 8219 at the old Allentown signals several miles west of Lupton, AZ. The staggered cantilevers on this left-hand running district had once accommodated a crossover, ... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe manifest was banging across the MP NW diamonds on KCT trackage at Sheffield interlocking on the east side of Kansas City

Desolate, dusty Vaughn, New Mexico, population about 500, is one of those places only a railfan could love, a cluster of vacant buildings, gas stations and a motel or two at the intersection of U.... (more)

Raton Pass echoes to the whine of dynamic brakes as 313 and four companions feel their way down the west slope on train 23, the Grand Canyon, on July 27, 1967. The summertime consist of this still... (more)

A New Mexico thunderstorm builds in the background as refrigerator cars of California produce, freshly iced, await a crew change on July 28, 1967 at Belen, New Mexico. Led by the 818, two hefty Al... (more)

Santa Fe's York Canyon, NM to Kaiser Steel Fontana, CA unit coal train was climbing west out of Seligman with RCE lead equipped SD 45 leading four SD26 rebuilds on the head end and four more SD26 ... (more)