How do you get all the folks up to the summit at Cajon for the ribbon cutting ceremony dedicating the new alignment in 1972? Why you grab some cars out of the coach yard in Los Angeles and some brand new SD 45-2s to put together a business train. Chard Walker photo. Stephen Priest collection.
In 1993, the Santa Fe delivered an Alco HH600 to the museum in Temple, Texas using a new B40-8W. The switcher was the second Alco diesel locomotive bought by Santa Fe. It was finally retired by the Palo Duro Grain Company up near Amarillo,
Nice photos! I love those early high hood Alcos. M&StL had a couple, and Rock Island purchased one - it became an orphan in terms of being the only one of its type on the line. There was an article I read a while back about that very unit. Interesting read.
Long before. 2300 was the Santa Fe's first diesel. 1935, if I remember right. 2301 was a year or two later.
Number 3070, Budd 1936, in her youth. It was as much a pioneer of full size, non-articulated streamlined equipment as the Denver Zephyr, but operated in the heavyweight Scout experimentally before entire coach streamliners were ordered. Still going strong, it was sold to NJDOT in 1971.
