The American Bicentennial is just a year off, and Santa Fe’s fifth Bicentennial locomotive, SD45-2 5704, has still not been repainted. By this point, ATSF 5700-5703 were all painted and usually... (more)

Santa Fe Railway’s flagship freight train, the hot Super C, has just begun its daily high-speed trip from Los Angeles to Chicago with a load of piggyback trailers on flat cars. One of th... (more)

A late afternoon thunderstorm is raging over Albuquerque to the northwest of Bridge One at the west end of Abo Canyon. An A-B-A engine consist of GP60's is powering an eastbound intermodal from S... (more)

A Santa Fe piggyback train, most likely the 891 (Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL) has just made a crew change in San Bernardino and it once again moving east. A quartet of ATSF Dash 8-40BWs – the ... (more)

While Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C, spent a few minutes cutting out a troublesome diesel while in Barstow, I had the time to take detail photos of the various markings on ATSF ... (more)

Santa Fe’s hot intermodal train, the eastbound Super C (symboled as 891), makes a very brief stop in Fullerton to pick up a "suit," as some managers used this train to quickly move betwee... (more)

Speeding through the passenger station in Fullerton is Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C. Known as the "World's Fastest Freight Train," the Super C was an all-piggyback trai... (more)

On May 23, 1990, Santa Fe Railway’s first two GP60Ms made their first trip eastward out of Los Angeles, having arrived in California for the first time the day before. ATSF 100 and 101 were sti... (more)

A hot Santa Fe 891 train heads east in July 1986. This piggyback train is crossing the Santa Ana River at the east end of Santa Ana Canyon, and in the process has also just crossed from Orange Co... (more)

Shortly after sunrise, an eastbound hotshot storms up out of the shadows of the pass with an 60M A-B-A-A set. The once spiffy new Super Fleet paint on the Warbonnets was already by the mid-90s ... (more)

Demonstrating an Attractive Paint Scheme

Santa Fe's hot 891 train makes a crew change stop at San Bernardino, California, on July 13th, 1985. Leading the train are EMD SD60 Demonstr... (more)

Santa Fe's 891 train snakes through Arizona's scenic Crozier Canyon on Oct. 7, 1995.

Climbing away from the Rockies on the way toward La Junta, NM is a detouring ATSF 891 intermodal train with a pure Warbonnet set of power leading the hot intermodal. Scanned from my Kodachrome 25... (more)

Santa Fe's hot eastbound "Super C" meets a westbound Amtrak "San Diegan" at Fullerton, California.

ATSF 525, 532, 544 & 552, eastbound on 891 train.