The Super Chief, AT&SF train 17, is seen west of Ayer Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

It may have been Texas, no information on the slide but a timeless scene of the conductor greeting a train going the opposite way. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

It may have been Texas, no information on the slide but a timeless scene of the conductor greeting a train going the opposite way.

Another unspecified passenger train looking good with the Warbonnet leading the way. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Never numerous, less well known that the Fs and generally assigned to secondary trains, the Es were IMHO the height of elegance in the Warbonnet paint scheme. Here a passenger train waits to depa... (more)

AT&SF 4-6-4 3456 leads train 2, The Scout, at Wichita Kansas in May of 1940. Note the clanging bell, and rods down, at 25 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

70 Floating hoppers and tumbleweeds

While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expec... (more)

AT&SF thirteen car mixed train number 67 is approaching the Wichita Kansas station in 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe 3804 leads a westbound manifest through the Oro Grande bridge.

AT&SF 2-6-2 1150 and 4-8-2 3720 lead a fourteen car troop train south, near Littleton Colorado, on August 30th 1952. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

After getting a yellow signal, an eastbound Santa Fe freight with two Kodachrome paint scheme engines from the failed SP/SF merger scheme, proceeds slowly into the yard in Los Angeles.

Six Santa Fe GP-35s grind up the hill towards the summit in Cajon Pass.

Santa Fe 7402 leads a westbound train through the San Bernardino yard.

Santa Fe caboose 999297 slowly rolls down the 3% grade on the south track near the Cajon Summit as helpers push hard on an eastbound intermodal as it grinds up the 2.2% north track.

Santa Fe 5429 slowly rolls down the 3% grade on the south track near the Cajon Summit as an eastbound intermodal grinds up the 2.2% north track.