Superfleet FP45 97 leads a hot stack train through West Flagstaff. I think this train is evidence that that the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe are getting cozy with each other even in 1991. Not ... (more)

Three year old FP45s nos. 3 and 1 pair up in their second color scheme and new assignment: freight service. Purchased for Hiawatha passenger service the units were delivered in UP yellow, but were... (more)

BN train #4 with Santa Fe 90 and a Conrail SD40 begins to slow up for Savanna as they roll along the Mississippi River. I don't know why Santa Fe power was roaming so early into the merger? The me... (more)

Santa Fe "Super Fleet" FP45 #90 leads SD45-2 B-unit 5511, SD40-2 5177 and B23-7 6406 Eastbound.

NORMAN OK May 1978 -- Santa Fe FP45 5947 and GP38 3550 roll toward the Lindsay Street crossing from the south with a covered hopper train in tow. Very close to this location railroad surveyor Abne... (more)

A Santa Fe Operation Life Saver Special makes a brief stop in Chillicothe Illinois on the ATSF main. The train ran from Chicago to Galesburg and returned to Chicago on this day in 1987, and fortun... (more)

Santa Fe FP45 No. 5945, which began service with road number 105 in the beautiful red and silver "warbonnet" passenger scheme, idles in front of the shops wearing the railroad's freight ... (more)

ATSF #95 FP45 rest at the Western America Railroad Museum during a hot night.

Super "C" accelerates through Joliet. As a little trivia, when I was hanging around near the end of Joliet Union Station as a passenger station(2014) I spent several nice evenings ta... (more)

Super Bowl Bound

On a stormy January 30th, 1988, a four-car Santa Fe officers' special rushes south across the San Luis Rey River Bridge at the river's mouth (where it empties into t... (more)

No longer operating on (or dressed for) Santa Fe passenger trains

A storm is threatening Santa Fe’s southbound freight on Colorado’s Joint Line as it leaves Larkspur and climbs to the fifth highest summit on the AT&SF at Palmer Lake, 7,237-ft. FP-45 91 res... (more)

Three FP45's bring an eastbound stack train into Argentine Yard, where one of the units was set out prior to continuing east.

Why do the best things always show up after the sun disappears? – In the era just before Santa Fe’s unsuccessful merger with the SP, and before Superfleet, it was uncommon to encounter matched... (more)