A four-pack of EMD Geeps moves engine lite on the IHB through Riverdale. Tom Golden photo.

Passing under the Illinois Highway 40 overpass, Santa Fe GE C30-7 No. 8121 leads a westbound piggyback train into Edelstein, Illinois, at the end of the day on April 30, 1988.

ATSF 5848, an upgraded SD45-2, leads a post-merger power consist down the long grade from Mountainair to Belen near the control point of Abo, NM. Kodachrome.

Tearing through small town Illinois
At 11:45 a.m. on August 24, 1991, Santa Fe’s QNYLA sprints through Toluca, Illinois, in a view from an old coal mine slag dump nicknamed “Jumbo”... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Santa Fe is Still All The Way. An original, Santa Fe bell bottom lantern - authentic right down to a real flame illuminating the square, Santa Fe herald on the glass globe - briefly makes a... (more)

What a beautiful sight to see the rebirth of the red and silver paint scheme. Was so fun to be track-side during this era. Four B40-8W and a B40-8 rolling through West Flagstaff. (Tom Ellis photo)

The Big Three. Not to be confused with the gentlemen who provided the financial backing and leadership for the Central Pacific Railroad's involvement in the building of the Transcontinental... (more)

Protecting The Movement A throwback to the early 70s as engineer Gilman takes the controls of a nearly mint condition looking FP45 locomotive, guided by his conductor, in a simulated yard s... (more)

ATSF freight east of the Colorado river entering the desert of Arizona with the last sun rays

Former Amtrak EMD SDP40F No. 635, rebuilt by the Santa Fe at the San Bernardino Shops into SDF40-2 No. 5254 in 1985, rests at the locomotive facility at Corwith Yard near Chicago, Illinois, on Feb... (more)