The F7 Cab

An F7 in Freight colors passes a semaphore signal on a clear day!

A F7 cab from microsoft's Train Simulator. Click on image for larger view.

Dearborn Station

A line up of e units gets ready for a consist and departure at Chicago's Dearborn Station.

Photo taken 1964

Hobart Yard

Santa Fe C44-9W 619 takes in the last sun of day at Hobart Yard on Fabruary 17, 1997.

Peavine turnoff

In October 2003, an aging SD45-2 leads a Santa Fe vehicle train at Williams Junction, AZ, toward the switch that will take it down the Peavine to Phoenix.
-Schmollinger

Mainline / Marcel

In October 1992, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train snakes through the multiple reverse curves at Marcel on Tehachapi Pass.

-Schmollinger

F7's put on a show

Santa Fe F7A 347C and F7B 347B were borrowed from the California State Railway Museum in 1989 for a publicity assignment in Pasadena, CA as part of the Super Bowl that year.

The Tehachapi Loop

Santa fe Locomotives for as far as the eye can see! At The loop!

Mojave Yard

Passing the old speeder house at the top of Mojave Yard, the 991 is passing under some magnificent clouds.

-Lehman

Flagstaff / Archives

A double Header of Steam Locomotives approaching Flagstaff Pulls a passenger train. Could be "The Grand Canyon." Photographer and year unknown!

Modeling the AT&SF / HO Scale

On this HO Layout or diorama, a GP-7 painted in the Zebra Stripe scheme pulls a small mixed train.

Buena Park Pick up

Working on a nine car pick-up at Buena Park, the 828 train with FP45 98 in the lead on December 14, 1991. Out of Buena Park, the train will have 14 loads and 88 empties.
 -Lehman

The Chief / Railroad Art /

The Chief an E-8 sits At San Diego's Sante Fe Depot.

Painting Acrylic on Canvas  -Roger Gilbert

Fullerton

Santa Fe's unique SF30B 6419 leads a BNBLA empty TOFC train through Fullerton on January 3, 1997. Power on this wonderful California winter day is 6419-5175-5182-3836-4003-577.

-Lehman

Cajon Pass

In October 1977, an SD45R leads a Santa Fe westbound up the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.

Photo Steve Schmolliger

Train Orders

The engineer of Santa Fe 3345 West picks up orders at Stockton Tower in 1973. The train is bound for Richmond, CA, with piggyback traffic.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Santa fe meets SP

A Santa Fe eastbound crosses over in front of an SP freight waiting at Sandcut in Tehachapi Pass.

-Schmollinger

The Caboose

Conductor James M. Johnson and brakeman Jack Torbet of Waynoka, Oklahoma having lunch in the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Waynoka, Oklahoma and Canadian, Texas.

Belen, New Mexico. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad C.G. Kirkland getting off the caboose.

Barstow Yard

Early in the morning on Veterans Day 1991, a brace of Santa Fe power heads for its train at Barstow Yard, while at the upper right we can see the Valley Line's bridge over the Mojave River.

Photo Schmollinger

Mainline action / woodford

Santa Fe 5960 shows off its supersaturated new colors at Woodford, California, near the famous Tehachapi Loop, in February 1987.

Motive Power / Dash 8

In a very artistic shot, at dusk, a new Dash 8 waits with an eastbound manifest at the east end of Knightsen siding on Santa Fe's Stockton Sub in Northern California.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Along the line / Edelstein hill

January 7, 1989 finds Santa Fe GP60 4003 leading a westbound, nearing the crest of Edelstein hill, and breaking into sunlight for the first time that day.
 Photo Brian Rackley

1986, three merger units lead a Santa Fe 199 train near Collier, CA, in Franklin Canyon.

Santa Fe-Southern Pacific merger

In the 1980s, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (SF) and Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP) attempted a merger. It began with the merger of holding companies Santa Fe Industries and Southern Pacific Company on December 23, 1983 to form the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation (SFSP), which held the SP shares in a voting trust. After the Interstate Commerce Commission denied the merger, SFSP sold the SP to Rio Grande Industries on October 13, 1988, and was renamed Santa Fe Pacific Corporation on April 25, 1989.
The holding company controlled all the rail and non-rail assets of the former Santa Fe Industries and Southern Pacific Company, and it was intended that the two railroads would be merged. They were confident enough that this would be approved that they began repainting locomotives into a new unified paint scheme, including the letters SP or SF and an adjacent empty space for the other two (as SPSF, the reverse order of the holding company).
The merger was opposed by the Justice Department in 1985 and denied in a 4–1 vote by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on July 24, 1986, who ruled that such a merger included too many duplicate routes and was therefore monopolistic. The Commission denied SFSP's appeal (again in a 4–1 vote) on June 30, 1987.
The holding company, ordered to operate the Southern Pacific at arm's length until it sold it, disposed of it on October 13, 1988 to Rio Grande Industries for $1.02 billion and the assumption of SP's debt, which consolidated the SP with its Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad under the Southern Pacific name. The holding company retained all the non-rail interests of both predecessors and shortened its name to Santa Fe Pacific Corporation (though all of the California real estate holdings were consolidated in a new company, Catellus Development Corporation, becoming the State's largest private land owner. Catellus subsequently purchased the Union Pacific Railroad's interest in the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal).
In 1995, the Santa Fe railroad merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), and the SP merged with the Union Pacific Railroad the following year.

"Kodachrome" paint scheme

The locomotive livery featured the Santa Fe's Yellowbonnet with a red stripe on the locomotive's nose; the remainder of the locomotive body was painted in Southern Pacific's scarlet red (from their Bloody Nose scheme) with a black roof and black extending down to the lower part of the locomotive's radiator grills. The numberboards were red with white numbers. In large block letters within the red portion of the sides was either "SP" (for Southern Pacific-owned locomotives) or "SF" (for Santa Fe-owned locomotives). The lettering was positioned on the locomotive sides so that the other half of the lettering could be added after the merger became official. One locomotive was painted with the full SPSF lettering to show what the unified paint scheme would look like after the merger was complete. One Santa Fe caboose was in a similar situation: photo
This paint scheme, combining yellow, red and black, has come to be called the Kodachrome paint scheme due to the colors' resemblance to those on the boxes that Kodak used to package its Kodachrome slide film (which was heavily used by railfans of the time). After the ICC's denial, railfans joked that SPSF really stood for "Shouldn't Paint So Fast".
At the time of merger denial, approximately 306 ATSF locomotives, 4 ATSF cabooses, 10 ATSF slugs, 96 SP locomotives, and 1 SP caboose had been painted in this fashion. The two railroads made an effort to repaint locomotives in their standard paint schemes after the merger was denied. Santa Fe repainted all Kodachromes still on roster by 1990, though some engines were sold in this scheme. Southern Pacific's less numerous Kodachromes were repainted much more slowly; some remained active on the Union Pacific after the SP buyout; a few Kodachrome-painted locomotives still operate in lease service today. One GP9 locomotive is operated by the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. Another Kodachrome that exists is an SD40R still in service with the Trona Railway.

photo Steve Schmollinger
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Tehachapi / Dash 8

Brand-new Dash 8 No. 877 leads a Santa Fe westbound out of tunnel 10 on Tehachapi Pass.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Vintage Photos / Steam / Riverside

Santa Fe owned the largest fleet of Atlantics, and kept a handful in service until 1953. No. 1468, a 1909 Baldwin, at Riverside, Calif., with a westbound train on January 14, 1941

Santa Fe Shops / Albuquerque

The Santa Fe established a major shop complex at Albuquerque to maintain and repair steam locomotives. At their peak in 1940, the shops were one of the city's largest employers, with 1787 workers.

Rebuild / Motive Power

The 5910 got a new lease on life when it was re-manufactured at the Santa Fe’s heavy rebuild shop in San Bernardino, California. new number was then 5960

Modeling the AT&SF / HO Scale

The hobby of Model Railroading can be a rewarding and enjoyable pastime. So I will be featuring photos of model railroading from time to time of the AT&SF railroad. The first are some shots from one of my earlier "Layouts" featuring two Zebra striped Gp-9's in a mock-up of San Bernadino yard. This layout is no longer in existence but I am working on a smaller one now because of room constraints.

Roger Gilbert

CF-7 Rebuilds

ATSF 2572 Milby St Shops Houston March / 80

Tehachapi / SD 45 / Near Tunnels 1 & 2

 

In 1973, SD45 No. 5615 leads SD24s and 26s on a westbound mixed freight down the steep grade between tunnels 2 and 1 on Tehachapi Pass.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Tehachapi / Ilmon / SD 45

 

 Santa Fe's SD45 No. 5612 was photographed at Ilmon on Tehachapi Pass.

Photo Steve Schmollinger

Flagstaff Depot / Time lapse

A time lapse photo of the night passage of a container train on a cold night at the Flagstaff depot.

Photo by Roger Gilbert

Cajon Pass / F45

EDM F45 No. 5932 leads an eastbound Santa Fe pig train up Cajon's western slope.

Photo Steve Schmollinger