With a fresh NS crew on board, train 26A (KCS I-DAAT) prepares to depart Meridian. Leading today's train is a Santa Fe Warbonnet, a rarity in 2022.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Oct 16 1983 -- ATSF GP7u 1313 and stablemates are handling switching duties at Flynn Yard between I-240 and Moore. On March 26 1930, not far east of this location, the Wild Mary S... (more)

WAYNOKA OK (May) 1978 — Santa Fe U36C 8757 rolls past the slow-moving GP30 3235 eastbound on the Transcon. Note the crewman on the GP30 waving hello. I slept under the stars in a pickup bed alon... (more)

What was once ruling the rails of the Santa Fe between Chicago and LA during the heart of the Steam Age until the early 1950's rests in Locomotive Park, a park in historic downtown Kingman. Built ... (more)

Former Santa Fe Pacific #3415 is running its last season before its 15 year inspection takes it out of service. The locomotive has uncoupled from its train and the engineer acknowledges the brake... (more)

ATSF 7439 waiting for its next call @ Argentine

A Santa Fe westbound manifest train In the Crookton cutoff taken from my friend Dons Airplane

The Sentinels of the Prairies

A sunrise look at the famed 'last semaphore' at MP 706. Now gone, these two signals were the easternmost blades on the Raton Subdivision for year... (more)

A freshly-painted Santa Fe EMD GP20 sits at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1986.

Santa Fe C44-9w 622 leads a eastbound up the last few yards of grade to crest the Arizona divide at Riordan on a beautiful fall morning in 1994 sadly the Santa Fe had only one year left

Former Santa Fe 2900 Class Northern no. 2912 sits on display at the Pueblo Railway Museum.

Santa Fe’s 301 train, a Kansas City to Chicago mainline local, rolls along a trackside pond approaching Leeds, Illinois, on May 30, 1992. An all-EMD line up behind lead EMD GP30 No. 2772 include... (more)

Former Santa Fe FP45 no. 97 sits on display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, TX.

Glory days on the Santa Fe As GP60m 113 leads a solid set of warbonnets out of Abo Canyon at Scholle NM in July 1991

A-B-B-A warbonnets
A westbound Santa Fe piggyback train crosses Abo Arroyo on Bridge 871.7 in Abo Canyon between Scholle and Sais, New Mexico, on June 2, 1995. Bridge 871.7 is the third... (more)