Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30s 3200 (ex-ATSF 1200) and 3213 (ex-ATSF 1213) at San Bernardino, California, on August 29, 1981.

Led by a set of EMD GP60s, a Santa Fe piggyback train flies eastbound through the curve at milepost 329 at Darling, Arizona, on April 19, 1990.

A Santa Fe 199 train has new EMDs and GEs for power as it negotiates reverse curves at Hercules, CA.

Santa Fe 5996 sports the new Kodachrome merger paint scheme at Victorville. The westbound Harbor Train has stopped in order to let helper engines tie on to the back of the train for the trip up Ca... (more)

Freshly painted and rebuilt Santa Fe SDF40 No. 5264 leads an eastbound manifest at Cable Crossover. Santa Fe acquired the big EMD from Amtrak and converted it to a freight locomotive.

Just into the LA basin out of Cajon Pass. We stumble across this train with two of the rarest locomotives on the Santa Fe roster. ATSF 1569, SD39 one of twenty of the models. And ATSF 5257, SDF40... (more)

Leaning into a curve and seemingly right on top of us, clean and shiny GP60M No. 142 leads a Santa Fe 199 train at Bixler, CA ,about a mile west of Orwood in the San Joaquin Delta.

At sunrise on a Saturday in June 1992, a hot 991 train hustles past the west switch at Orwood, CA, with the Coast Range visible far in the distance. This the heart of the San Joaquin Delta.

Santa Fe 505 East climbs the steep western slope of Ash Hill as it roars through the Mojave Desert past Ludlow. From this vantage point, we can see that the desert is definitely not flat, but has ... (more)

Santa Fe 5347 West creeps through the ATSF-UP interchange to get to UP's Stockton Yard from Santa Fe's Mormon Yard. Because of catastrophic flood damage to SP's Tehachapi line on March 1, 1983, Sa... (more)

Surrounded by diesel locomotives in primer paint, Santa Fe 5394 shows off the brand new "Kodachrome" paint scheme for the proposed Santa Fe - Southern Pacific merger.

Santa Fe 2867, in the SPSF Kodachrome merger paint scheme, and Santa Fe 2901, sit near the Amtrak station and the Santa Fe diesel shop in San Bernardino.

Santa Fe 2756 East emerges from tunnel 5 with her diesel exhaust billowing skyward. The freight is fighting a heavy grade and almost constant curvature. It was not unusual to see GP30s on the poin... (more)

Santa Fe "Kodachrome" merger unit 5966 east leads two GP30 merger units and 3 other SF blue units on a heavy manifest train near Blue Cut in Cajon Pass on a beautiful November afternoon.

On July 8, 1986, a Santa Fe freight climbs the Arizona Divide west of Flagstaff, Arizona. Leading the westbound train is a former Amtrak EMD SDP40F, No. 5256, designated a SDF40-2 by the Santa Fe ... (more)