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)

”I’ll Take It! Build My House Here!"

That’s a direct quite from one of my friends when we found this view of a westbound Santa Fe manifest at Cable, California. We were ... (more)

Santa Fe All the Way

There’s no mistaking whose train is climbing the Tehachapi grade near Cable, California. No less than five cabooses punctuate a manifest consisting of mostly... (more)

A 25-car westbound Santa Fe TOFC train drifts downgrade at Marcel, California.

An eastbound 40-car Santa Fe TOFC train climbs the Tehachapi grade approaching Marcel, California. The rear of the train is in Tunnel 10, just above the Tehachapi Loop.

A pair of SD40s (ATSF 5005 and 5013) stop to pick up some cars as the train heads east on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s Third District. Just behind the power is another locomotive be... (more)

Having traversed the Tehachapi Loop, a westbound Santa Fe train continues toward Bakersfield, California at Walong. A half-dozed GP30’s and GP35’s are leading the descent of the storied grade.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train climbs the steep grade of Raton Pass at Wootton, Colorado, on February 26, 1999, led by GE C40-8W No. 911 still in Santa Fe’s famous warbon... (more)

The old Bob Wills song "Miles and Miles of Texas" is apparent in this image of ATSF 242 leading an A-B-B-B-B-A set of F7s on a 59 car westbound near Muleshoe, TX. You can bet they sounde... (more)

Old vs. new as ATSF 3751 heads north passing Keller Yard. On the right, a group of F125s waiting activation to service sit silently with F40 #800.

Santa Fe SD75M's road numbers 200-250, built in 1995.

A late afternoon thunderstorm is raging over Albuquerque to the northwest of Bridge One at the west end of Abo Canyon. An A-B-A engine consist of GP60's is powering an eastbound intermodal from S... (more)

Santa Fe’s 102 train switches the yard at Streator, Illinois, rumbling past the station that once served the railroad’s stately fleet of passenger trains, and now provides the same function fo... (more)

A lot has changed here since 1981: The Mt. Vernon Avenue overpass is gone (and will be replaced with a less-rickety structure), the tower at A Yard is gone, A yard is now an intermodal fac... (more)

Santa Fe 908 West is coming out of the sag between Chalender and Williams Jct., nicely accenting the spring afternoon scene on the Arizona Divide. Kodachrome.