With SP's Palmdale Cutoff in the foreground we see a westbound freight descending "the long way". I believe that S siding has been removed since this photo.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train 891, the hot westbound piggyback Super C, approaches the Alondra Boulevard grade crossing as it begins its journey from Los Angeles; Hobart yard to ... (more)

Having delivered Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited from Chicago to Los Angeles, the power (Santa Fe F45 5920, F45 5921, F7B 308A and steam-generator car 133, decked out for th... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's only GP40, the 2964 was derated to 2500 hp and classed as a GP35u. It was formerly ATSF 3461, which was Toledo Peoria & Western's only GP40 1000, originally EM... (more)

An ex-CN F unit is convincingly done up in the famous ATSF "Warbonnet" scheme at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco.

Still in use (with a co-corroborator in the same yard) for local moves next to the Coors Plant.

It's been a little while since I processed one of my dads photos. Man did he love it when the red and silver paint scheme returned. He got so excited when we would get trains like this. (Tom Ellis... (more)

The stars look down upon a true relic in the desert. This semaphore, as long as countless others still standing along the Raton Subdivision, has been guarding the line for well over 100 years at t... (more)

Two cabooses that are part of the Fullerton Train Museum's collection, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 999110 (Ce-1 class) and Southern Pacific 4049 (C40-4 class), witness the passing of a westbound BN... (more)

Quintessential Santa Fe
Santa Fe’s 198 train barrels through Toluca, Illinois, at 6:05 p.m. on May 11, 1991. The scene is classic Santa Fe—piggyback flying over double track high ir... (more)

Santa Fe 5030 on display at the Salvador Perez Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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.

Brand new Santa Fe GE C40-8W 815 at BN's Cicero yard, Illinois on September 26, 1992.