After changing crews near the Raton NM Amtrak station, ATSF BALJ is ready to ascend Raton Pass.

Santa Fe SF30C #9518 painted in the SPSF merger colors leads a leased and renumber Conrail SD40-2 and a Santa Fe GP39-2 Southbound at the North entrance to the Air Force Academy.

With a load of pipe in its train, Santa Fe’s La Junta - Dodge City local has arrived Dodge City, Kansas behind Alco RSD-4 2141, Nov. 17, 1967.

An eastbound ATSF trailer/train with SD40-2 5181, 5077 and an SD45 5543 at Flynn, Oklahoma.

What started out as a plan to shoot coal trains on the famous Santa Fe Raton Pass Subdivision turned into an unplanned busy few days of following top priority intermodal and freight that was being... (more)

With one six-axle EMD for each car, and one for the caboose, Santa Fe Train 804 rolls east across the New Mexico desert toward Raton.

An eastbound towing four radio control cars probably going to the scrapper. A Roger Puta Photograph

NORMAN OK June 1984 -- Santa Fe GP50 3817 leads a piggyback train east (compass north) as it approaches the Eufaula Street crossing.

GARDEN CITY KS Sept 16 1980 -- Santa Fe SD39 4009 and U23C 7517 lead train 194 westbound. Note the smiley face on th CoOp elevator and the loco at far right.

PURCELL OK May 31 1985 -- The engineer of AT&SF 8082 snags his orders. The train is traveling west (compass south). I must have viewed this scene hundreds of times but only rarely thought to photo... (more)

DAVIS OK Aug 23 1985 -- ATSF SD45u 5394 was the first Santa Fe unit to be painted in the proposed SPSF paint scheme. It was painted in this experimental scheme with white lettering instead of yell... (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.

By the mid 1980’s, freight traffic on Santa Fe’s Raton line was sparse, but not virtually nonexistent as it is today. Some of those few trains could, however be heavy enough to require helpers... (more)

A set of SD24’s led by 949 makes its way past one of the most famous locations in railroading, the 3829-foot Summit of Cajon Pass, before dropping down the 3 percent grade to the LA Basin on Sep... (more)

Starting up the 3 percent Raton Pass grade, a severely overpowered Santa Fe train 804 has left Raton, and is passing Keota, New Mexico on a May afternoon.