SANTA FE
One of America's best known railroads, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe became imortalized in thousands of toy train sets adorned in it's trademark 'warbonnet' colors. The Santa Fe became best known for it's mainline, the fastest route between the midwest at Chicago and southern California. This route hosted a fleet of famous passenger trains and later became a conduit for intermodal traffic. In 1995 the road merged with the Burlington Northern to form today's BNSF.
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B23-7's #4208 & 4223 lead a transfer run through Santa Fe Jct. in Kansas City, MO on July 14, 2002. A UP coal train passes overhead on the bridge over the Missouri River. |
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B40-8W #532 leads a GP60B and GP60M on a westbound intermodal train passing a group of grain storage bins near Reading, IL on June 17, 1995. |
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C30-7 #8114 heads a westbound pig train under the rainbow near Olivet, KS on May 30, 1985. |
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A very clean C40-8W #885 pulls train #199 around a curve at Appleton, IL on the Chillicothe Sub on June 18, 1995. |
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A C40-8W leads BN and Santa Fe SD40-2's eastbound across the farm fields at Ancona, IL on July 20, 1996. |
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C44-9W #533, C40-8W #824 and B40-8W #581 are southbound crossing the SP at the tower in Stockton, CA on October 21, 1996. |
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CF7 #2425 is one of hundreds of the unique hybrids built from old F units by the Santa Fe shops in Cleburne, TX. After service on the Santa Fe, the units trickled down to the shortline market, as here on the Lackawaxen & Stourbridge at Honesdale, PA on 9/18/86. |
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The FP45u's were the first units to be repainted into the Warbonnet Scheme when it was reintroduced by the railroad in the early 90's. Here is #93 at Wichita, KS on July 13, 2002. |
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FP45u #5992 leads a U36C and an SD45 westbound on the mainline near Emporia, KS on May 30, 1985. |
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GP7u #2060 has a local freight headed through the 'Bottoms' area of Kansas City, MO on June 2, 1985. In the distance is a Katy coal train. |
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GP7u #3822 and slug #3963 switch cars at Newton, KS on July 13, 2002. Newton is on the original Santa Fe main via Raton Pass. |
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GP20u #3063 is painted for the merger that never happened, Santa Fe-Southern Pacific which was not approved by the ICC. Several units from both roads were painted in this scheme, here on an eastbound at McCook, IL on June 16, 1986. |
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GP30u #2753 has a westbound freight in tow on the Chillicothe Sub at Verona, IL on June 17, 1995. |
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GP39-2 #3415 & Gateway Western GP38 #2037 are eastbound coming off of the Missouri River bridge at Kansas City on January 24, 1998. This is a dual level rail bridge just west of Santa Fe Jct. |
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GP60M #147 powers a westbound intermodal train into Houlihan's Curve and up the hill at Edelstein, IL on June 17, 1995. |
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A quartet of shiny warbonnets, GP60M's #147, 104, 127 and B40-8W #568 speed through Coal City, IL with a westbound intermodal train on September 8, 1993. |
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SD26 # 4606 (a rebuilt SD24) and a drone (Santa Fe terminology for a slug) are working at Argentine Yard, in Kanas City, KS on June 1, 1985. |
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Santa Fe sold a number of their SD26's to Guilford in 1987. While enroute east on the B&O, #4645 was involved in a head on collision at East Concord, NY. Two months later on 4/11/87, the unit sits at D&H's SK Yd in Buffalo, NY awaiting disposition. |
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SD40's #5001 and 5019 are eastbound with a pig train near Bazar, KS on May 30, 1985. Not your typical Kansas countryside, this stretch northeast of Wichita is curving and hilly and the mainline is reduced to one track here. |
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SD40-2 #5070 and SD40 #5013 are in big sky country as they lead an eastbound on the Montana Rail Link over Bozeman Pass, MT on the old NP mainline on September 6, 1997. |
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SD45-2 #6509 and two LMX B39-8's head east over the high bridge at Canyon Diablo, AZ on February 17, 2001. |
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A TR-4 cow-calf set (SW7 equivalent), #1418 is switching at Kansas City, MO on May 26, 1977. |
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U23C #7515 and SD24 #4661 lay over on New Year's Day 1981 at Deming, NM. When new the U23C's were frequently assigned to ore service in this area. |
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The classic Santa Fe off-center cupola caboose, #999139 brings up the rear of a freight at McCook, IL on June 16, 1986. |