A GE U36C and C30-7 are both in the "Kodachrome" color scheme developed for an ill-fated merger with Southern Pacific. An EMD SD45 in blue completes the lashup.
After spending a few hours at Cliff siding on Tehachapi, we had begun the long walk back to Bealville. As we were nearing Tunnel 5, we encountered an eastbound Santa Fe manifest with a U36C on the... (more)
U36C No. 8703, one of the few painted in the "tuxedo" paint scheme, leads a westbound Santa Fe manifest into tunnel 9 at the Loop. Note the trackside indicators on either side of the mai... (more)
As 1974 Winds Down…Santa Fe U36C 8746 leads a trio of of SD45s (all still in the pre-Yellow Warbonnet scheme) as a westbound freight approaches Blue Cut, in southern California’... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
A Milwaukee Road westbound transcontinental freight has pulled onto Pacific Coast Railway trackage at Black River Junction, south of Seattle. The train is switching cars at its Black River Yard be... (more)
MILW 5802 leads another big GE, and SD40-2 and an SD45 into Black River Jct. along Milwaukee's Black River yard in Tukwila, just south of Seattle. This location was where the branch into Seattle, ... (more)
LUCY NM Sept 10 1980 -- An all GE lashup led by Santa Fe U36C 8796 accelerate a mixed freight on the Transcon.
CLOVIS NM February 1974 -- Santa FeU36C 8719 rolls under a signal bridge between Clovis and Texico.
A westbound Santa Fe intermodal train climbs Ash Hill.
U36C 8744, along with SF30C (rebuilt U36C) 9556, waits in the siding at the east end of Christie, about 5 miles east of Richmond, California.
PORTALES NM Jan 24 1976 -- Santa Fe U36C 8719, an SD45 and another U boat are bound for Clovis in a light snow storm.
ABO NM Sept 10 1980 -- Santa Fe U36C 8796 and an all GE consist roll over the bridge west of Abo on the Transcon approaching Abo Canyon. Nest stop is Belen NM.
