while Santa Fe's 2nd Torrance Road Switcher was shoving paper loads toward Boise Cascades Torrance plant on the three mile Torrance Oil Spur the rail turned under the trailing unit derailing the l... (more)
The westbound Grand Canyon is assisted by two Alcos as it leaves Trinidad and begins its assault on Raton Pass.
lite engine working at Amtrak's exSanta Fe 8th Street coach yard near downtown LA. Until 1985 Santa Fe crews manned the coach jobs and supplied the yard power.
ATSF F45 1936, along with a pair of SD45s, is ready to depart the west end of Argentine Yard, on quite possibly the F45's first revenue trip following delivery from EMD earlier in the month.
An older (1949?) Cadillac is waiting for the train to clear.
Santa Fe #93 slows for a station stop at the end of its run at Lubbock, Texas. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF. E8Am 80L was ... (more)
Santa Fe FTA 127L leads an A-B-B-B-A set of FTs off the First District main line onto the Plainview District at Lubbock Junction (renamed Canyon Junction in 1989). The train is en route to Plainvi... (more)
Santa Fe FTA 180L leads a Clovis-bound freight west of Littlefield, Texas, on the First District of the Slaton Division. This is the "Texas main line," which connects Galveston, Houston, Brownwood... (more)
EMD A-B-B-B-A F units are ready to lead the GRAND CANYON west from Chicago. The unit number indicates that 30C is an F3 despite the F7 style dynamic brake fan. The unit is also displaying green fl... (more)
#52 and comrades get serviced. John was too preoccupied with a warbonnet PA to snap off a shot of that engine on the left, new and unique to the SF, a FM H12-44TS, one of three purchased that yea... (more)
...missing the presidential shield, at least on this side.
A Santa Fe GP9u sits in front of a portion of the now demolished San Bernadino diesel shop.