That's a beautiful photo, Santa Fe pride in action. Such a shame that we've exchanged such gleaming beauty for filth on many locomotives these days.
A photo of the 2024, prior to the rebuilding, repainting and renumbering, as the 2875: https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=48422
Yeah, those "Topeka" cabs and the Cub Scout paint scheme were a step back. But the crews liked the added air conditioning.
West of Prescott, AZ, the depot at Skull Valley on the "Peavine" between Ash Fork, AZ and Phoenix. The Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix first arrived in 1894.
Cool. I have wondered for many years what stood there, as I have a train order copied at that office, in my collection.
It's open to conjecture, but one story says the name followed a visit by white settlers when they came upon an alarming find of human remains years after a battle between the Yavapai and Pima tribes. Native Americans instead call the place Bakwaeguo, which means "hair" because a nearby mountain looks like a pile of hair! That's really neat that you have a TO from Skull Valley @BoxcabE50. This is remote country for sure. We have family in AZ and would love to railfan the Peavine some day, but it's thousands of miles from our home and the logistics get complex.
1964 at Redondo roundhouse in LA. As a teen on bicycle, Victor B. D'Agostino was allowed by the shop foreman to take this photo.
#1010? This number seems familiar. Something historical happened. By this date, it is obviously a preserved locomotive. I am thinking speed had something to do with it?
Photo: Santa Fe Flatcar 90725 (Ft-P) With Shifted Pipe Load Photo courtesy of Ted Culotta. He comments: “The Santa Fe received 150 flat cars from American Car & Foundry in 1930, car nos. 90701-90850, assigned to series Ft-P. They closely followed the Ft-O class delivered in 1929, with straight side sills and deep fishbelly underframe sections, visible in the photo below. The car below features a highly interested load of corrugated pipe that has shifted slightly. Note all of the loading details, including wood separating each layer, banding and strapping, plus the wood at the outside and fitted into the stake pockets. The clips attached to the sides that some of the bands are secured through were not original features of these cars. The photo dates from 1967, by which time they had been added.”
