Nearly three years after the pair were delivered by builder Alco, wearing the Daylight paint, the St. Louis Southwestern's PA's 300 and 301 were well established at work in the Lone Star state... (more)

Train 16, The Texas Chief ready to depart. A Roger Puta Photograph

Snow was a rarity in Central Texas in the winter of 1947, but so were steam locomotives on the Sunshine Special which by this time had been dieselized. The abbreviated consist was indicative of ... (more)

SP’s Train 2 “Sunset Limited” leaves Houston, Texas headed to Louisiana and final terminal New Orleans. FP7 6453 is assisted by a SDP45.

Texas Chief No.15 coming in the station with F7(A) #47 and three 'B' units in the lead, with Alco PA-1 #64 watching the action. Photo taken from my slide collection. photographer J.B.King.

Westbound Santa Fe train #1 the San Francisco Chief at Amarillo station with four Alco PA's led by number 58. Three Flexi-Vans flat cars of US Mail, two head end cars, three hi-level chair cars ... (more)

On Friday, April 24, 1964, F7s 330L-329A-327A idle at the point of a passenger special touring the line promoting hi-level passenger equipment, bumped down from the EL CAPITAN, that soon would be ... (more)

In case of a line-blockage derailment, there was nothing like a ready-made shoofly around it!! Such was the lucky case when the rear cars of a northbound ATSF freight derailed adjacent to a lim... (more)

Pacific No. 409 struggles up a 1.7% grade as it leads The Texas Special out of Austin. The train which usually consisted of 12 cars used Missouri Pacific tracks as it left the city southb... (more)

The southbound Sunshine Special glides through the cut north of Sixth Street in Austin. Diesels had replaced the Pacifics which were the previous power. The cut was removed during the constructio... (more)

Santa Fe #93 rounds the east leg of the wye at Lubbock Junction approaching the Avenue Q overpass. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO ... (more)

Train #75, the westbound CALIFORNIA SPECIAL behind an A-B-A set of Alco PAs, speeds toward a connection with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF at Clovis, New Mexico. The train is crossing Avenue P and is ab... (more)

Santa Fe #93 slows for a station stop at the end of its run at Lubbock, Texas. Trains 93 and 94 ran between Lubbock and Amarillo, connecting at Amarillo with the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF. E8Am 80L was ... (more)