Greetings Gordon! Welcome to Trainboard, and the Santa Fe Forum!! Hope you enjoy!! And I agree with the 5000 series. My problem is (I guess) that I like em all. I am more partial to steam, but that goes for all railroads. But then again...I would'nt mind seein' zebra striped diesels running all over the place too!! John
Yes, welcome Gordon! The only picture I can find in my stuff of a 5000 is this one, 5017, taken by my friend Jim Upton at the NRM in Green Bay, WI, August 2000. 5000's and 2900's look similar, gigantic. Huge boilers. ATSF had some awesome steam. Got the latest publication from the San Bernardino guys operating the 3751, and it has a great photo on the cover of 3759 and 2929 doubleheading at Sullivan's Curve in Cajon Pass. Neat article by Chard Walker about how that photo helped get Sullivan's Curve named after Herb Sullivan.
Yes Sir!! That's a beauty...sleek, black, ready to rip the heart out of the miles that lay before it. man THOSE were the engines!! Thanks for the great shot!! John
Beautiful! I would love to have seen that hard at work in it's heyday Santa Fe may be mostly remembered for the warbonnet diesels these days, but they sure had some wonderful steam locomotives!
Here's the website for the home of Number 5000, the Madam Queen: http://www.tprhs.org/ Info on the Santa Fe's other "Texas" type locos (3829, 5001 class and 5011 class) can be found at http://www.steamlocomotive.com/texas/atsf.html Dwight
thanks for the welcome , jcater , and jim , i was just told about this site , wow what a great place , people chatting about santa fe , steam , zebra stripes and n scale !!!! i must of died and gone to heaven !! just to let you know jim i have the " new" train room built and hope to have both levels of a 1954 santa fe layout running by the 2003 june n scale convention to be held here in houston,tx. hope to see you there!!!
Gordon, sure glad to hear the way you feel about this place. We all try to make it the best there is, and hope you get everything you expect from it. Dwight, thanks for the link to "Madam Queen." I honestly did not know about her. Alan, you know my heart lies with New York Central steam, but Santa Fe runs a close second. The ATSF did not have to limit the size of their locomotives like the Central did, with tunnel clearances and the like, and so could build those big boilered monsters. Also unlike the NYC, ATSF PRESERVED so many. I have only seen a few, the 2912 in Pueblo, CO, the 2921 in Modesto, CA, the 3759 in Kingman, AZ, the 3751 of course, and the 3450 in Pomona, CA. So many more to go in search of! Photo of 3450.
Oh yeah...this is what I like to see...lots of ATSF steam !!! But how about those diesels? Many have been mentioned in regard to the original post of greatest motive power...anybody have some pics of zebra stripes to share, or famous F units?? John
What makes this even more amazing is the fact that the Santa Fe dieselized so early. Management declared the system fully dieselized in 1953, though the large produce crop in 1955 caused a bit of a steam revival in NM, TX, CO, OK and KS. John, I'll work on finding some diesel pics for ya. Dwight
Thanks Dwight!! There is another well preserved 10 wheeler in La Junta, Colorado. Recently saw the engine in Pueblo. It seems to me I saw one somewhere in Nebraska too, but I can't remember where... John
Somebody like these? Zebra Stripes Not too keen on them myself, I prefer the blue and yellow warbonnets
hey dwightman ! i saw that your from pearland , tx and you like santa fe!! i am up in crosby, tx just north of baytown. i didn't know if your just a railfan or also a modeler? HO ? or N ? i am building a large N scale layout and we have another sf model who operates here in houston , if you would like send me an e mail gtbliss@aol.com
Now that is beauty!! From Bonnet to Zebra and back again...if it sez Santa Fe its all right by me! You guys are the greatest !! John
