This was a special day for ATSF 104 as it was assigned to an employee appreciation passenger special making runs east from Joliet. Here it has arrived at Union Station, temporarily blocking Metra ... (more)
ATSF 2712 leads a blue trio of vintage Geeps on an eastbound freight at Streator, IL. At this date it was still possible to get all blue/yellow consists on Santa Fe's mainline across Illinois, but... (more)
On the afternoon of April 30, 1988, a westbound Santa Fe piggyback train storms through Edelstein, Illinois, after climbing the hill out of Chillicothe, Illinois.
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)
Cajon, the site of the old Santa Fe station in the heart of Cajon Pass, sits at the 3,100 foot (945 meters) elevation, and the snow is not usually very deep here. But on occasion, it can get pret... (more)