ATSF Baldwin 3523 leads south bound at Del Mar California in 1933. From my collection, Otto Conrad Perry photo.

Out on the road again for the first time in years, ATSF class locomotive 3751 gets a little bit of sun before it begins its trip back from Fullerton to Los Angeles. Sadly a diesel had to be put in... (more)

The old Burlington Route Long Branch stretched 830 miles from Lincoln, NE to Huntley, MT where it joined Northern Pacific's mainline. In more recent days the route became a high density coal corri... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP40X No. 3801 rests in the afternoon sunshine of August 30, 1986, at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois. Flared radiators are a feature of the ... (more)

At Ancona, Illinois, the former Santa Fe main line makes a long right hand curve westward through town. On April 26, 1997, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train flies over the ... (more)

NORMAN OK Oct 8 1980 — Santa Fe U36C 8729 is at the head end of train 513 as it passes the Amtrak station. The mixed freight is northbound and running at the timetable-dictated 45 mph. My photo.... (more)

Only two GP40X's had been painted in the merger scheme, one the 3805 and the other 3803, which had already been repainted back into Santa Fe's standard blue and yellow by September 1986, when t... (more)

Having worked the mainline trains for the day, #108 heads back to the barn for the night.

AMARILLO TX July 6 1986 — Santa Fe SD45u 5394 leads seven other locomotives westbound on the Transcon south of city center. This was the first Santa Fe painted in the Kodachrome scheme. The expe... (more)

Santa Fe hot shot. Four GP60's with a pig train. With a new GP60M out front. (Tom Ellis photo).

With its bell swinging high, Santa Fe 3751 shoves its train out of the Fullerton Railroad Museum spur track where it has been on display for an Amtrak safety event. This is 3751's first outing in ... (more)

UMBARGER TX Jan 23 1984 — Santa Fe SD40-2 5163 holds the main with a TOFC train on the Transcon. My photo.

The Grand Return. Five years after it last ran on the mainline, Santa Fe 3751 returned to the rails to great fanfare for an Amtrak safety event in Fullerton, CA following its 15 year rebuil... (more)

PURCELL OK (August) 1977 — Recently outshopped Santa Fe CF7 2448 leads a northbound mixed freight. The train is passing by the former engine facility which is to the right of photo. The roundhou... (more)

It’s a stark winter day in central Illinois as a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train, powered by five EMD GP60Ms, rolls west of Chillicothe on the short climb over Edelstein Hill on February 16,... (more)