Santa Fe's "queen of the fleet" train 199, starts its climb up Edelstein Hill behind new Super Fleet power and a friendly wave from the conductor. Scanned from a K64 slide.
Back when the Superfleet was new and Transcon Z-Trains looked different from every other train on the railroad, ATSF 155 leads 2 more GP60M's and a GP60B under 55th Street as they enter Argentine ... (more)
The 199 was THE HOTTEST train on the Santa Fe, and still is on BNSF today, now known as the Z-WSPNBY.
A 199 train waits for CTC to be restored while a GP30 switches the west end of Mormon Yard.
A 199 train roars past a Richmond Local tucked away in the siding at Christie for its passing.
SF30C 9560 leads a 199 through a sweeping curve "railroad" west of Ballico and the Merced River as it speeds northward through the San Joaquin Valley.
Dash 9 648 leads a hot 199 train across the concrete trestle at Antioch just before sundown.
GP60M 114 leads a 199 train under high-tension wires at Pinole at the western edge of Franklin Canyon.
A hot 199 train roars through Oakley on its way to Richmond.
A 199 train skirts the outskirts of Pittsburg with the giant Pittsburg Generating Station looming in the distance.
"Kodachrome" SF30C 9524 leads a hot 199 train through the sweeping curve at Bixler as it comes off the causeway from Orwood.
At sunset on New Years Day 1992, three GP60Ms race across the San Joaquin Delta with a hot 199 train for Richmond.
A 199 train streaks past the cantilever signal bridge at the west end of Sando siding at dusk.
Leaving the San Joaquin Delta and Tosco Oil Refinery behind, a hot 199 train climbs through the hills of Martinez toward Franklin Canyon.
In a torrential downpour, a 199 train roars through a sharp curve west of Ballico, seemingly undeterred by the raging weather around it.