The Super Chief, AT&SF train 17, is seen west of La Junta Colorado in 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Factory Fresh!

As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads east behind a C30-7, F45, C30-7, SD40-2, SD40-2 consist … so typical of the railway’s power consists in the late 80s. (Corona, California – January 1988)

FARWELL TX Oct 8 1988 — Santa Fe GP35u 2838 handles a local freight near the Texas-New Mexico border. EMD built the unit in April 1964 as GP35 1338 and delivered it in a blue body with yellow en... (more)

ATSF 3423, a 4-6-2 On display at the Temple Railroad Museum. This locomotive was built by Baldwin in the year. 1921.

The Super Chief, AT&SF train 17, is seen west of Ayer Colorado in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

It may have been Texas, no information on the slide but a timeless scene of the conductor greeting a train going the opposite way. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

It may have been Texas, no information on the slide but a timeless scene of the conductor greeting a train going the opposite way.

Another unspecified passenger train looking good with the Warbonnet leading the way. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Never numerous, less well known that the Fs and generally assigned to secondary trains, the Es were IMHO the height of elegance in the Warbonnet paint scheme. Here a passenger train waits to depa... (more)

AT&SF 4-6-4 3456 leads train 2, The Scout, at Wichita Kansas in May of 1940. Note the clanging bell, and rods down, at 25 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

70 Floating hoppers and tumbleweeds

While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expec... (more)

AT&SF thirteen car mixed train number 67 is approaching the Wichita Kansas station in 1937. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe 3804 leads a westbound manifest through the Oro Grande bridge.

AT&SF 2-6-2 1150 and 4-8-2 3720 lead a fourteen car troop train south, near Littleton Colorado, on August 30th 1952. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.