PONCA CITY OK (August) 1981 — ATSF GP20u 3033 handles switching duties in this north-central city in Oklahoma. A large customer is the ConocoPhillips oil refinery but this photo highlights the grain business. The Robin Hood Flour site was closed in 1959. My photo.
Aside from Warbonnets and Chiefs, Santa Fe was a workaday railroad like any other. This album showcases that less glamorous--but no less vital--side of the famous ATSF.