Beautifully restored to its "as delivered" appearance is Santa Fe Railway FP45 108. When the BNSF Railway retired their small fleet of FP45s, which they inherited when the Santa Fe and ... (more)

Led by Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 840, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight curves out of short Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the crystal clear afternoon of February... (more)

In 1984, Santa Fe acquired eighteen ill=fated SDP40F’s from Amtrak, removed the steam generators, regeared them, and designated them SDF40-2. Here one of the freshly-rebuilt units approaches Alb... (more)

The power of a westbound thirty-nine car Santa Fe TOFC train pours it on as it makes the assault on Glorietta Pass at Rowe, New Mexico.

A Classic Santa Fe caboose brings up the markers on a northbound Santa Fe train at Ilfeld, New Mexico.... (more)

With eighty-six cars of mixed freight in tow, a northbound Santa Fe train on the Raton Pass line passes through Ilfeld, New Mexico.

Chico and The Comet

Comet NEOWISE streaks behind one of the ubiquitous Santa Fe Semaphores in New Mexico..

An eastbound Santa Fe freight on the Raton Pass line roars through Romeoville, New Mexico. A clean GP50 and B36-7 are leading four filthy SD39’s and a C30-7.

Our 1985 trip west found us spending the night in Las Vegas, New Mexico. We were headed for Abo Canyon the next day, and we hoped to get a train on Glorietta Pass. In the morning, we heard a westb... (more)

A northbound train of empties with mixed Santa Fe and Burlington Northern power passes through Spruce, Colorado.

Northbound empties roll on the Joint Line at Larkspur, Colorado. A Santa Fe C30-7 conforms to the BN mold of SD40-2/U30C/C30-7 power for Powder River coal trains.

Two Santa Fe SD40-2’s give an assist to a southbound Burlington Northern coal train on Colorado’s Joint Line. Here they cross the Santa Fe-branded trestle at Larkspur.

After shooting a southbound Santa Fe train on the bridge at Larkspur, Colorado, we dropped down to roa... (more)

Crossing perhaps the most-photographed railroad bridge in Colorado, a southbound Santa Fe manifest passes through Larkspur, Colorado.

An Atypical Joint Line Coal Train

A lone Santa Fe GP20 rolls a single coal hopper, most likely a bad-order repair, through Larkspur, Colorado. This consist is quite a bit smaller t... (more)