Santa Fe did some experimenting with warbonnet schemes after the Amtrak takeover. Since the red warbonnet was affiliated with passenger service, it was too attractive to just throw away. This was ... (more)
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
It was rare to see the Santa Fe SD39's near Chicago, but they did show up once in a while. Here's one rolling through McCook, Illinois with a GE U33C behind.