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)

”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.