I think the color is off a little on that one. I held the slide up to natural light and it was difficult to discern, but I believe that it is blue. I'm not familiar with the Santa Fe painting locomotives in that manner, so I'd think it's blue.
Santa Fe H12-44TS 543, Sacramento, CA, 1980s (????) Santa Fe GP9 714 looking pretty fresh and new in San Bernardino, CA, 1950s (????)
I'm betting you're right. The photographer might have used a yellow filter. Or it just isn't Kodachrome... Love that F-M Terminal Switcher! You've got a real rarity there.
And thanks for taking the time and trouble to share them! Especially these yard shots on the Santa Fe--that's particularly useful for me. I can't decide if I'm more fond of the view of those two handsome ALCOs or that very rare view of 404 and 358! If that's Texas, it's a cold day in Texas. That steam generator exhaust sure is easy to see.
Santa Fe U28CG 354, 1960s (????) (Note the silver pilot and yellow handrails) Santa Fe U28CG 357, 1960s (????) (Note the red pilot and red handrails. I'm guessing that this configuration is the original color scheme.)
I believe you. They certainly look brand new, and no vehicle in the shot is newer than they are (1965-'66, like the red Mustang). Whereas in the other shot, there's some grime buildup, and the last bits of paint clinging to the center part of the front handrails is red. Besides, the FP-45s wore yellow handrails. I'm surprised to see the dark running gear and tanks! I had no idea. It's also interesting that the horns got moved forward. I believe that later shot, which I suspect is about 1967 (though the cars are a little too far away to identify easily), is an Oklahoma football special. It certainly isn't the Super/El Cap, and if it were the San Francisco Chief it would not only have more power, but a Big Dome coupled to the Hi Levels. The OU-Texas game specials are about the only other trains I know of that ran Hi-Levels. Those were not only heavy specials, but the game happens in October or November when the El Capitan could spare some chair cars.
Santa Fe F3a 16C, 1960s (Al Chione) A quartet of wagons leads a freight through the rain, Pueblo, CO, 1970s (Al Chione)
Tunnel 29. The 12° curve east of T29, and old Tunnel 28. The last Ski Train sequence was Bull Gulch, just west of west portal Tunnel 2. In 2013, heavy rains washed a 200' wide hole under the tracks here. http://www.skyhinews.com/news/trains-through-grand-county-detour-after-floods/
Thanks to you all, by the way, for filling in info gaps! The extent of my knowledge certainly doesn't cover some of the things you guys have provided and I certainly thank you all for that.
One of the Santa Fe's streamliners heading through what looks like the Raton Pass area, late 1950s (Al Chione) Santa Fe U23B 6327, 1970s (????)
GE introduced the U23 very late 1960's. When did AT&SF buy theirs? Guessing from the paint condition, this one has been rostered for a few years.
Santa Fe purchased theirs in 1970. My best guess is that this is from the mid-1970s, between 74/75/76 before they really started repainting everything with the freight warbonnet.
Brand new BN C30-7 5534 waiting to head west, Erie, PA, December 4, 1977 (David S. Albrewczynski) Amtrak's train 4, departing Galesburg, IL, January 21, 1973 (Carl F. Nelson)
