Perrin, AZ

Three red and silver GE C40s lead an eastbound Santa Fe pig as it pierces the classic signal bridges at West Perrin, AZ.

Bagdad, California

March 1943. Bagdad, California. Going through the station on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Needles and Barstow.

Santa Fe Albuquerque

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Albuquerque 1989 U33c

Cajon Pass / winter

Winter on Cajon Pass and an FP45 in red warbonnet colors heads up what looks like a mixed bag of merchandise including auto racks!  Meanwhile SP pulls up on the rear on their  parallel track.

(as always click on photo for larger view)

Desert Railroading

A Santa Fe container train snakes it's way through the desert southwest.

-Steve Schollinger

Santa Fe Ad's

Early Santa Fe Poster Featuring Native Americans and the Land.

RoadRailer

In August 2005, the St. Louis to Saginaw RoadRailer crosses over on the BNSF at Lake Wanda, TX, not far from its destination.

-Steve Schmollinger

Franklin Canyon

The distinctive face of Santa Fe experimental Dash 8 No. 7400 emerges into the sunlight from tunnel 2 in California's Franklin Canyon.

Memories

An abandoned station and a old caboose harken back to a better time! A more classic time!

Yards

Argentine yard!

Mountain railroading

Looks like a pair of dash 8's heading up a mixed freight.

Archival photos / The Dispatcher

A SF dispatcher prepares to order a freight for departure. No laptop here!

Chicago Departure

The Southwest Chief prepares to highball out of Dearborn in the "Windy City." Taken in the 70's

Modeling the ATSF

A inter-modal rounds the bend on this prototypical HO scale layout.

SP, SF, Merger colors / FE45's

Santa Fe F45's 5986-5975-5953 and blue and yellow SF30C with a slug of Santa Fe box cars on the head end, pump up the air at Empire, CA and get ready to proceed towards Fresno and Bakersfield.

Franconia, AZ

On April 30, 1988, a hot Santa Fe 198 train hustles through Franconia, AZ, on its way to LA.

Steve Schmollinger

Seligman Monsoon

In July 1985, Santa Fe 5427 East roars upgrade out of Seligman, AZ, as a monsoon thunderstorm brews overhead.

-Schmollinger

Sandcut

In June 1973, a Santa Fe eastbound is silhouetted against the intense afternoon sun at Sandcut on the western slope of Tehachapi Pass.

-Steve Schmollinger

Motive power / SDP40F

Santa Fe SDF40 No. 5264 makes one of its first freight runs after being purchased from Amtrak as an SDP40F. Here it approaches tunnel 3 in Tehachapi Pass with an eastbound manifest.

-Schmollinger

Auto Cars at sunset

On a hot afternoon on the outskirts of Bakerfield, CA, a Santa Fe manifest climbs the grade out of town into the Tehachapi Mountains.

-Steve Schmollinger

Railroad Art of AT&SF

Casablanca by rail.....

Motive Power / SD75Ms

A pair of Santa Fe SD75Ms leads a westbound intermodal symbol past the signals at Summit in Cajon Pass and into the fog of the LA Basin in January 1996.

-Steve Schmollinger

Modeling The AT&SF / Tehachapi

 Another great layout in HO scale. This was taken at the San Diego Railroad Museum of  the huge Tehachapi loop layout which could pass for the real thing.

Blue Cut, CA

A consist of four-axle power rolls an eastbound manifest, complete with open autoracks, through Blue Cut, CA, on Cajon's western ascent. The train is passing over the San Andreas Fault.

Steve Schmollinger

Guam, New Mexico

In June 1998, an eastbound BNSF vehicle train passes the beautiful Red Rocks at Guam, NM.

-Steve Schmollinger