Amtrak Super Chief awaits departure in Los Angles

Tulsan arrives EB at Kansas City

#2 San Fransisco Chief and #24 formerly Grand Canyon are read for departure to Chicago.

Santa Fe Grand Canyon departing Chicago. Consist reflects loss of mail contracts after 1967.

AT&SF EMC E1 number five departs Albuquerque at 10 MPH with a five car El Capitan in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

AT&SF train number twelve, the Chicagoan, is departing Emporia Kansas at 10 MPH on March 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe M-190 Mail Express Motor car built in 1932, had a 900 hp gasoline-electric power plant it was replaced with a diesel-electric engine in December 1949. The M-190 was assigned to pull no... (more)

The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

Santa Fe had visions of a company museum, and was wise enough to hang onto a variety of locomotives with that in mind. It never happened, of course, and the collection was donated to the Californ... (more)

ATSF 104 & 105 slow to a stop at Joliet Union Station where they will uncouple from their train and run around to the rear for a return to Corwith, in Chicago. They are handling an employee passen... (more)

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

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)

El Capitan, AT&SF train 21, is seen descending on the west side of Raton Pass near Lynn New Mexico, on January 16th 1944. Note the wartime headlight visor on E6 13. Otto Perry photo, from my colle... (more)

The Chief is seen arriving at Albuquerque with ATSF FT 167, and mates, leading 14 cars on June 28th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.