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)

Santa Fe’s 199 train flies over the Vermillion River Bridge as it leave Streator, Illinois, in its wake at 4:58 p.m. on June 26, 1993. Powering the train destined for Richmond, California, is AT... (more)

A Superfleet powered TOFC train heads east toward Chicago with a quartet of mixed GP60Ms & GP60Bs crossing farmland near Kinsman, IL.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A Westbound hotshot passes the classic Santa Fe Cantilever bridge at GI on the westside of Galesburg. A newer Dash 9 leads the pack west on the Chillicothe Sub. Santa Fe purchased 100 of these Das... (more)

A Santa Fe "quality" TOFC train rolls through Joliet led by a ATSF 574 and two more Superfleet GE's, along with a blue Dash 8-40B. The scheme certainly brightens up a rainy day!

Strange bedfellows at Corwith Yard on the Santa Fe in Chicago. Relatively new GP60 ATSF 4022 is joined by former MILW/SOO SD40-2, EMD 6082, featuring the low moment for both Milwaukee Road and Soo... (more)

Santa Fe GP50 3842 leads a trio of Superfleet GP60Ms and a GP60B west on the south side of Streator with a 199 high priority Intermodal train made up mostly if not entirely of TOFC. Santa Fe was n... (more)

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)

The early morning sun greets a Santa Fe helper set, lead by ATSF 5022, as they push hard on an eastbound manifest train as it works its way around the famous Tehachapi Loop.

Santa Fe EMD GP30 No. 2746 leads AT&SF train 301 into Houlihan’s Curve as it descends Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 3:23 p.m. on May 11, 1991.

ATSF 2351 leads a manifest freight over the Vermilion River bridge at Streator, IL on its way west from Chicago to Galesburg and points west.

ATSF 128 makes good time through Coal City, IL on its race from Kansas City to Chicago. The power is an A-B-A set in Super Fleet red & silver, among the most impressive sights in railroading in 19... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

Santa Fe’s QNYLA intermodal train, operating from New York to Los Angeles with Conrail, flies out of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 12:17 p.m. on December 8, 1990. Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 503 and a... (more)