Four Santa Fe SD-39s sit next to the passenger station in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Santa Fe 8028 races east through Daggett, California.

An A-A-B-A set of warbonnet EMD GP60s is about to hurtle an eastbound piggyback train over a rural road west of Edelstein, Illinois, on August 24, 1991. Powering the train bound for Chicago is GP6... (more)

Hottest in the fleet
Santa Fe’s ultra hot 199 train flies across a wood trestle over Prairie Creek at Ancona, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 30, 1992. The Chicago to Richmond, Calif... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the Illinois River over this substantial truss bridge at Chillicothe, Illinois, on the morning of April 30, 1988. This double track bridge, replacing... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

Rolling through Ono, at milepost 75 – 6½ miles railroad-east of San Bernardino – after having conquered Cajon Pass. This westbound freight is powered by GP35 3398, the former ATSF 1398, team... (more)

On a beautiful spring afternoon in Kingman Canyon, a weathered quartet of four axles heads west on Main 2 on the Seligman Subdivision.

Following the first section by 34 minutes, a second section of Santa Fe’s QNYLA train swings through the long curve at Ancona, Illinois, at 2:41 p.m. on May 2, 1992. Powering the speedster is a ... (more)

Spotted in San Bernardino’s B Yard was waycar (what the Santa Fe called cabooses) 999630. This car was built in August 1948 (original four-digit number unknown), and rebuilt into a CE-3 class c... (more)

Santa Fe 9537, painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railway (a merger that was ultimately denied), leads an eastbound freight at May, on Santa Fe... (more)

AT&SF 8771 leads a westbound intermodal through the Mojave River Narrows near Victorville, CA. March 23, 1985

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train descends Edelstein Hill and is entering Houlihan’s Curve just above the town of Chillicothe, Illinois, on December 8, 1990. Leading the way is a former Amt... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight circumnavigates the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs out of California’s San Joaquin Valley and up into the Mojave Desert. ATSF U36C 8716 leads this train, follow... (more)