Mojave Manifest

In August 1994, Sant Fe C40-8 No. 815 leads the attack on Tehachapi's eastern slope as it storms out of Mojave with a heavy manifest in tow.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Santa Fe Railroad Paintings /art

Mainline Action / Nebo, CA

Customer's special runs around 2-891 train at Nebo, CA. This was the maiden eastbound voyage for the new GP60Ms. Fp 45's and GP 60's with War bonnet Paint schemes, does it can any better?

Santa fe steam / 3751

Given the Santa Fe's size it shouldn't be surprising that the railroad likewise owned a large and varied fleet of steam locomotives from small switchers to large articulateds like massive 2-10-10-2s. Not only did the AT&SF have a large steam locomotive fleet, today it has no less than 59 being in some state of preservation with two in operation including 3751 and several more undergoing restoration.

Old Santa Fe Depots / Photo archives /

San Bernadino,, Old Depot
Photo restoration by R. Gilbert

Hermosa Beach, Ca

Santa Fe Railroad Paintings /art / Azman

Art from book cover The Santa Fe Route- Railroads of Arizona vol 4 by David Myric.  Art by Azman

Seligman Sub / Crookton, AZ

In July 1985, Santa Fe's Winslow DS is running a hot eastbound pig train around an intermodal symbol between Seligman and Crookton, AZ.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

In the Yard / Oceanside CA / Zebra Stripes

 Zebra stripe GP series No. 702 working the yard in Oceanside, CA May 1961

Santa Fe Odyssey-volume 1 / Green Frog Videos

Santa Fe Railroad Paintings /art

Tunnel 10 by David Oram

Mainline action / F45 / Kansas

 F45 5923 is on the point of a mixed freight at AG Tower in Augusta Kansas in Dec 77.

In the Yard / San Bernardino / Sw series Switch engine

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe yard switch engine 1240 in the yellow bonnet paint scheme. San Bernardino CA 1973

Photo  Craig Walker

Station Stops / Dearborn Chicago

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe - A double lash up of A and B units.. EMD F7 - Dearborn Street Station - Chicago, Illinois, April, 1971.

Mainline action / F45's

Early on a summer's morning, a Santa Fe 943 train prepares to depart the east end of Knightsen after meeting a westbound intermodal train here. The train has two F45s for power.
Photo Steve Schmollinger

The Yellow War Bonnet / F7

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe - EMD F7 - Santa Fe Corwith Yard - Chicago, Illinois, July 07, 1973 - Santa Fe 339 was built as a passenger locomotive in 1953.

Along The Line / Caliente Creek Narrows

A Santa Fe 2-971 train snakes its way through the Caliente Creek Narrows on an alignment not far from the original built by Southern Pacific in the 1870s.
photo Steve Schmollinger

Seligman Sub / Crozier Canyon

On a beautiful morning in July 1985, four big EMDs haul a long Santa Fe mixed freight upgrade through Arizona's Crozier Canyon on the Seligman Sub.

photo Steve Schmollinger

Station Stops / The surfliner

Early shot of either the chief or The Surfliner at the San Diego Depot. Notice the railway express truck in the Background. the smokestacks in the rear are San Diego Gas and Electric.

Along the Line / ATSF CameronTexas May77

Looks like an add on of helpers with some Gp 7's or 9's led by number 2805 and even maybe an F unit in Cameron Texas.
Notice the old "Can Type" antennae mounted on the roof and the yellow bonnet paint scheme!
Photographer unknown

Seligman Sub

A hot westbound Santa Fe pig train hustles over the hogback at Seligman, AZ, as a manifest waits to depart in the yard.
photo - Schmollinger

Along The Line / Flagstaff / Container

Number 8261 leads a hot container train while blasting through Flagstaff AZ on the seligmen sub, ( laying fully on the horn) in the winter of 94. The size of the SD-60 almost dwarfs the depot.

Photo by Roger Gilbert

Motive Power / U36C

In January 1974, a Santa Fe manifest with six U36Cs for power cruises through Mojave, CA, with the Tehachapi Mountains in the distance.

Photo: Steve Schomllinger

Seligman Sub Flagstaff

Number 697 in the Santa Fe War Bonnet paint scheme, leads a Hot Inter-modal through the Flagstaff depot on a wet winter day of 2004.
Photo by Roger Gilbert

Santa Fe "Doodlebug" M.160

Build Date: 1931
Current Status: Restored and Operational
Road: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Currently at the Dallas Railroad Museum
Originally built by the Brill Motorcar Company as a gas-electric, the M.160 had major rebuilds in 1948 and 1952, when it was fitted with a diesel engine and components from Santa Fe's first E-1 passenger locomotive. M.160 spent much of its life on Santa Fe's vast network of rural branch lines, initially operating between Amarillo, Texas and Carlsbad, New Mexico, and later used on the Wichita, Kansas - San Angelo, Texas route. Its last service was between Carlsbad and Clovis, New Mexico on trains 25 and 26, "The Cavern," painted in the red and silver "warbonnet" paint scheme used for passenger locomotives and pulling round end chair observation number 3197. M.160 was retired in December 1966 and stored at Clovis until donation of both M.160 and 3197 in January, 1969.

Steve Schmollinger / Railroad Photographer Extraordinaire

Steve Schmollinger contributes to this site in the form of his timeless, artistically framed photos of Railroading. He has been at it for some time and it shows. He has an artists eye for composition, and the setting often includes a unique perspective which includes a blending of the beauty of nature with that of steel rails and "Iron Horses." He is also an author and has books featuring his work such as "Desert Railroading"

and "Images of Western Railroading."

Any true lover of Trains will have at least one of his books in their library. I don't need to say a lot about him because his photos adequately speak to his talent and love for Photography and Railroading. I would suggest that anyone that has not yet added one of his books to their collection do so, ( Amazon ) you won't regret it. In my humble opinion he ranks at the top.

RG

In the Yard / San Bernardino

In August 1974, switchers are hard at work in Santa Fe's San Bernardino Yard.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Motive Power / ATSF148 gp-60

Along the Line / Santa Fe 5267

July 1985, Santa Fe 5267 West makes the climb up the stairway out of Seligman, AZ.

-Photo Steve Schmollinger

Along the Line / Santa Fe 199

Kicking up dust as it storms through Oakley, CA, a hot Santa Fe 199 hustles through the San Joaquin Delta at 70 mph.
Photo by Steve Schmollinger

Note: AT&SF fan club is proud to have noted Railroad Photographer and Author Steve Schmollinger as a contributing Photographer

Station Stops

The Super Chief / El Capitan Makes a stop in Joliet Illinois.