Santa Fe FM H16-44 roadswitchers Nos. 3013, 3005 and 3012 layover at Topeka between runs in September 1968. Photo by Ed Spitzer, part of my slide collection.

Never mind that Santa Fe’s southward local out of Topeka has three Fairbanks-Morse diesels on it, dig the price of gasoline at far right — 28.9 cents a gallon on March 27, 1965! Two H16-44s h... (more)