a lengthy westbound San Diego to San Bernardino (train will we westbound until reaching the Olive Sub at Orange where it will become an eastbound) SDX was negotiating the hogbacks along the I 5 Fw... (more)

A freezing fog covers the grass and brush around Adamana at noon on December 27, 1986. Train 2-338, a main line local, has just finished switching a LPG storage facility and is now en route to Win... (more)

Tricked out to the max, this is the zenith of EMD on John Santa Fe's railroad, SD75s not withstanding.

Late on a fall afternoon, a hot 199 train comes off the Orwood Bridge with plenty of horsepower up front.

With a light rain falling, freshly painted Santa Fe 1569 sits along with other SPSF merger paint scheme locomotives and slug units in primer paint outside of the San Bernardino engine shops.

Three brand-new GP60Ms lead a westbound intermodal train past the Tosco Oil Refinery.

A re-engined Alligator and a rebuilt GP35 sit outside the classic shop building.

Crossing the mighty Mississippi
Santa Fe SD40-2 No. 5081 leads a hot intermodal eastbound across the Mississippi River at Niota, Illinois, on the morning of April 24, 1988. Part of Ft. ... (more)

Led by 3 SPSF merger-painted SD39's, the LA-KC 893 train makes a quick stop to cut out helpers on a stormy winter morning.

Santa Fe EMD F45 No. 5986 guides a freight through the swooping curve at Darling, Arizona, on September 15, 1992.

After being a media queen in a few "Super Fleet"publicity specials in November, the 104 greets the low December morning sun back in freight service out of Hobart.

westbound Santa Fe Xtra Harbor train led by a bunch of freshly painted units out of the shops in San Bernardino, CA passing LAIRPORT siding on the Harbor Sub in El Segundo, CA

Santa Fe's "Bandini Turn" heads west through Corona, California, on February 7th, 1981. A pair of B36-7 diesels (7489 and 7493) are in the lead, followed by some GPs (GP35s 3448 and 3389, and GP3... (more)

Just after sunrise, an eastbound intermodal charges up out of Alray on the north track for Summit on a crisp morning in the pass. Getting a clean grouped set of the GP60Ms was always a highlight... (more)

First run at Ethel
At 4:31 p.m. on June 16, 1990, Santa Fe GP60M No. 114 makes its first trip west as it curves through Ethel, Missouri. Santa Fe ordered 63 of these custom-designed Nor... (more)