PAULS VALLEY OK January 1975 (date approximate) — F7 333 rolls through the fields of Central Oklahoma.

Back when Cleburne was the place to be another local eases out of town with Fs in their next to last incarnation, at least of John Santa Fe.

ATSF1453 is caught in the small yard at Atchison, KS as steam from the Midwest Solvents plant rises in the background.

The classiest profile in railroading in late 1965 was still Santa Fe’s four Warbonnet-wearing E6As. Built by EMC in the early years of World War II, by the mid-1960s they were assigned to servic... (more)

Freshly painted Santa Fe exAmtrak SDP40F redesignated by Santa Fe as an SDF40 sits at Santa Fe's Hobart diesel facility ready for work.

Santa Fe's Watson Yard to Hobart Yard "Hobart Turn" was departing Watson yard with a very rare for this area single SW unit for power.

My friends and I waited at Palmer Lake for a northbound train coming from Colorado Springs. When it arrived, it turned out to be a Kodachrome GP30 running light.

Santa Fe’s famous warbonnet perhaps looked best on an Alco PA, as Mail Train 4 arrived Kansas City Union Depot with PA 74, Oct. 30, 1966. An ATS (Automatic Train Stop) shoe is on the 3rd axle ... (more)

The westbound Grand Canyon has come and gone, and the Raton Pass helpers, Alco RSD7 609 with RSD5 2158, bask in the July heat at the Raton engine terminal. In the cool of the evening, they’ll ta... (more)

Fairbanks-Morse 556, a 1956-built H12-44, sets out for an afternoon switching Santa Fe’s vast Argentine Yards in Kansas City, Kansas on April 26,1965. The ancient yard office in the background... (more)

Santa Fe 2130, in from La Junta, idles at the Pueblo engine terminal. By December, 1964, Santa Fe’s 53 Alco RSD5s are running out their final miles in Colorado and New Mexico freight service, as... (more)

While its competitors dispatched passenger trains behind fleets of E-units, Santa Fe preferred F-units geared for passenger-train speeds. The exceptions were a handful of E3s and E6s and a dozen ... (more)

GE C30-7 8024 leads an SD-24 and a U36C on an eastbound Santa Fe perishable train through Kingman Canyon, Arizona on April 23, 1980.

Three Santa Fe former passenger F units with stainless steel sides are among the consist of a southbound (RR East) freight train leaving Temple, Texas on March 16, 1973, almost two years after bei... (more)