AT&SF train 17, The Super Chief, glides downgrade on Raton Pass with a nice looking set of F7s leading the way, in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Old steam loc near the old Route 66.

Of the seventy-five Santa Fe GP20s, only sixteen were merger painted.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1790 and ATSF 4-8-4 3784 are seen leading train 20, The Chief, east of Raton New Mexico on June 16th 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 2-10-2 1705 is helping ATSF EMC E1 number 2 with train 17, The Super Chief, west of Trinidad Colorado on February 22nd 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A set of EMD FTs lead 81 cars west, just west of Suwanee New Mexico, on September 2nd 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ABO NM July 6 1986 — Santa Fe C30-7 8146 leads an SD40-2 and two SD45s on the Tanscon. GE built the 8146 (s/n 43573) as an RCE Locotrol master in June 1981 and delivered it in yellow warbonnet. ... (more)

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1797 and ATSF 4-8-4 3777 are working hard pulling a 13 car Chief at 30 MPH, near Raton New Mexico, on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Repairs are being made to Santa Fe covered hopper No. 315510 in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

Santa Fe M-160 Mail-Express Motor Car built in 1930, had a 400hp gasoline-electric power plant, it was replaced with a diesel-electric engine in 1949. The M-160 was assigned to pull Nos. 25-26... (more)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 "Northern" #2925 sits outside the Central Pacific Passenger Station in Sacramento. This engine, along with many other pieces from the Santa Fe's histori... (more)

On April 16, 1994, a westbound Santa Fe vehicle train zips through Leeds, Illinois. AT&SF No. 2751 was built by EMD in March 1963 and has put on a few miles between Chicago and California—but it... (more)

The legendary photographer Otto Perry captured this AT&SF 17 car mail train, number 8, doing 50 MPH at Bernalillo New Mexico on September 20th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe Alco PA 57 idle away at Fort Worth on August 01, 1965. At this time PA's 57 and 61 were being used on Train Nos. 77 and 78 the Angelo, between Fort Worth and Brownwood, Texas. Photo b... (more)

541 miles into its 2222 mile journey from Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL, three Santa Fe engines (two F45s – ATSF 5933 and another – and an F7B – plus a steam generator car) lead Amtrak 4, the... (more)