Saint Louis-San Francisco 863, the first of 279 B30-7’s turned out GE, rolls across a short trestle in Carrollton, Texas, on May 2, 1979, headed for Fort Worth. Built in 1977, the 3,000-hp dash-... (more)
Saint Louis-San Francisco GP38-2 415 and a trio of GE U-boats play tag with summer clouds near Hebron, north of Dallas, on Juy 14, 1979. Frisco, like many other roads, likes the GP38-2’s for th... (more)
In late afternoon light in November, 1979, Saint Louis-San Francisco GP38-2 403 and a pair of SD45’s lead a piggyback train south through the triple diamonds in Carrollton, Texas. The Cotton Bel... (more)
On the northwest edge of Dallas, Gribble in 1979 is an area of swamps and gravel pits where a railfan is as likely to encounter a water moccasin as a train. But with a puff of exhaust this humid J... (more)
On a bright January morning in 1980, a matched set of Saint Louis-San Francisco GP40-2’s led by the 767 rumble across the Elm Fork of the Trinity River just north of Irving, Texas, with train 33... (more)
