On the morning of April 24, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses the wide Mississippi River from Fort Madison, Iowa, into Illinois on an impressive multi-span deck and truss bridge built in... (more)

Hottest of the hot
Powered by a quartet of Super Fleet GE B40-8Ws, Santa Fe’s 199 train, the hottest in a fleet of hot intermodal trains, barrels through Ancona, Illinois, at 4:00 p.m... (more)

Santa Fe 8113 leads a westbound manifest through Cajon Summit.

The fields are plowed and the crops are planted on this spring day of April 26, 1997, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight led by a pair of Santa Fe locomotives hustles through Leed... (more)

ATSF GP30 leading some more GPs in front of the the freight through Cajon summit. in this years, GP30s or GP35s could sometimes be seen in front of heavy freight, often just leading some much b... (more)

Paul Meyer photo.

Paul Meyer photo.

Tom Golden photo.

Santa Fe 2-8-0 804 Built In 1902 was still active in the photo taken in the fall of 1949. It was sold for scrap on 4-7-1953 after a long time in service. This photo Is from a original 116 B&W nega... (more)

Back in the days of red and silver, or yellow and blue... the latest and greatest, a matched set of 5 B40-8Ws race the hottest train on the railroad around Houlihan's curve and up Edelstein hill. ... (more)

Back in the days of red and silver, or yellow and blue... EMD hotshot power races a JB Hunt intermodal train west at Wilbern, IL

A trio of EMD GP60Ms, Nos. 150, 111 and 137, round Houlihan’s Curve just west of Chillicothe, Illinois at 4:30 p.m. on August 24, 1991. This is Santa Fe’s 199 train, and is getting up to a goo... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP60M No. 127 shows off its famous warbonnet-clad profile while resting at the locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of January 26, 1991.