Less than twelve months after this photo was taken, the lead loco on this eastbound was wrecked in the tragic Jan. 1988 Pico Rivera CA rear-end crash.
A boiler equipped GP7 with Train #26, the Pecos Valley Streamliner about to leave Carlsbad, NM: Bally Boynkin, Grorge Gunter & a firemen. A Roger Puta photograph.
Roger Puta took this shot from the cab of ATSF GP7 2879, the power for Train 26, the Pecos Valley Streamliner.
A "Kodachrome" is leaning into the caboose of an EB freight. These were the standard helpers back in the day. I got sick of 35s.
Santa Fe #93 slows for a station stop at the end of its run at Lubbock, Texas. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF. E8Am 80L was ... (more)
The ubiquitous 35s were made somewhat more interesting by the "Kodachrome" paint job, the "smoke lifters" and the "cobra hoods". Here one is pushing an EB freight. With all the gas & chemicals I... (more)
Look to the left and you'll see the train they're pushing heading up to Sullivan's Curve taking the long way eastbound.
Santa Fe GP35 2879, seen here at San Bernardino, California, on July 23, 1986, is ex-3379, and was originally ATSF 1379. The engine eventually became BNSF 2579.
