Having completed an Amtrak special run from Houston, the two ATSF-painted units detach from the train and head into the museum grounds.

Night fever.

A Santa Fe "caboose hop" on the remnants of the California Southern Railway, which once went all the way to San Diego from here.

Restored #108 (which ran as #98 when the GP60M models arrived) is one of the jewels you can find running at the former Orange Empire Railway Museum. They rotate what runs every weekend, but you c... (more)

Santa Fe's Hot 199 Chicago to LA piggyback/intermodal train seen here accelerating westbound across the Rock Island diamond in Joliet Illinois while the eastbound commuter train waits for it to pa... (more)

Back when the GP60M were the pride of the railroad. Three GP60's come thundering through Flagstaff, Arizona with a hot pig train. (Tom Ellis photo).

A five-unit set of Santa Fe GPs (ATSF GP30 3249 leading other GP30s and GP35s) leads a westbound freight through Cajon Pass’ Summit in a raging snowstorm. This train will be encountering snow a... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP7u 2071 and GP35 2902 sit in San Bernardino’s A Yard. ATSF 2071 was built by EMD in September 1952 as ATSF GP7 2762. It was rebuilt at the railway’s Cleb... (more)

A trio of brand-new Santa Fe Dash 8-40BWs, all "elephant-style," decent Cajon Pass with a westbound piggyback train. A trio of brand-new Santa Fe Dash 8-40BWs, all "elephant-style,... (more)

A quartet of Santa Fe U23Bs roll through the railway’s Cleburne Yard, with ATSF 6336 (built in December 1970) in the lead. (Cleburne Texas – March 3, 1973)

Getting underway out of Argentine Yard, ATSF 915 leads a Dash8-40BW, GP60 B unit and an SD75M (915-500-331B-218) as it heads west on a June evening.

ATSF C40-8W 826 built 4-5/1992; acquired by CN Rail in July 2010, and numbered 2148, still in service.

You can almost feel the intent of Santa Fe's Transcon, slashing across the country, inexorably pursuing the coast. Same could be said of the 7443 West as it races through Stronghurst, IL on a late... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe GPs (GP30 3208 and GP35 3371) work their train at the small yard in Fullerton, just west of the passenger station. ATSF 3208 is the former ATSF 1208, and ATSF 3371 was original... (more)

It takes a lot of power to lift heavy trains over the Tehachapi Mountains, as evidenced by the nine locomotives needed to get this Santa Fe eastbound, led by F45 5903. Nine diesels from EMD’s f... (more)