CLOVIS NM Sept 3 1984 -- Santa Fe C30-7 8052 and four other units accelerate out of Clovis on their eastward trek with a TOFC train.

TEXICO NM May 24 1980 -- SD40-2 5042 SD45 5533 and SD45 5614 lead train 288 as it rounds a curve and passes the Texico station. Its next stop is Clovis NM where it will get a new crew and the loco... (more)

NORMAN OK April 29 1980-- A clean SD45-2 and a smoking U-boat on train 325 toward the Brooks Street crossing.

Freshly painted SDF40-2 No. 5264 rolls off the Tehachapi grade just west of Mojave. The unit was rebuilt from Amtrak SDP40F No. 632. In all, as part of a horsepower trade, Amtrak sent 18 SDP40Fs t... (more)

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.

This power consist has just cut off of its train, which came over the hill from LA. In the consist are two EMD SDP40Fs, which Santa Fe recently purchased from Amtrak. ATSF will rebuild them into S... (more)

LA JUNTA CO March 11 1980 -- A Santa Fe SD39 (a Locotrol master) leads a train on a mostly cloudy day. Note multiple antennas on the 4012 and exhaust smoke from mid-train slave units.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Southbound Santa Fe train south of Temple

The sun is out in Gleneagle, just south of Palmer Lake, but Denver is getting hammered with a T-storm and hail as ATSF 3965 brings a train south on the Jojnt Line. A Kodachrome is in the consist i... (more)

U-Boat at Summit

An eastbound Santa Fe freight, led by U33C 8767 and a quartet of GP35s, crests the summit of southern California's Cajon Pass in March 1979.

The steep grade of track #2 is obvious as 102 drops into Cajon.

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)

At the end of a pleasant day on the Santa Fe in Illinois, the setting sun and red signal give way to one more eastbound intermodal hotshot. The sun was setting on the railroad as well as the BNSF ... (more)