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.

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)

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)

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)

Santa Fe GP40X No. 3807 leads an eastbound manifest near the west end of Cable on Tehachapi Pass. According to one engineer, these could be troublesome unit to run. Despite that, railfans liked th... (more)

Santa Fe train 804 tries to outrun impending storms as it knocks down the semaphore at Wagon Mound, New Mexico. With just six cars, 804 wasn’t a profitable run on this day.

Lead an eastbound intermodal train as it snakes its way past the big basalt hills at Siberia. Santa Fe SD40-2 No. 5058 sports a rare set of headlights in its nose. The lights were Oscitrol warning... (more)

Late on a beautiful afternoon in July 1989, a hot Santa Fe pig train roars through Gately on the railroad's Stockton Sub. In the distance are the hills that surround Franklin Canyon, and at center... (more)