ATSF Old Photos

r_i_straw Dec 5, 2011

  1. Hardcoaler

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    Not sure if 10/20/1996 is old enough for the thread, but 27-1/2 years ago seems a long time ago at Trinidad, CO. As I remember, the train was stopped awaiting a new crew.

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  2. BNSF FAN

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    That's a beautiful shot!!!!!! (y)(y)(y)
     
  3. acptulsa

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    Guess they're all old photos now.

    The SuperFleet days gave me the same feeling as looking at '55-'56 Packards and '72-'73 Diamond Reos. All three companies suffered hard setbacks courtesy of government that left their futures untenable, but all three managed nevertheless to remain magnificent to the end.
     
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  4. Hardcoaler

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    When I was a kid growing up in Chicago in the '70s, I remember that the Santa Fe ran television ads. I was transfixed when they appeared. (y) It was a well diversified company as some of these ads show.

     
  5. BoxcabE50

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    I, too, can recall railroads using TV commercials. It's a bygone era, in more areas than just this industry. A forgotten aspect of business called "public relations".
     
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  6. Hytec

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    and Public Service, emphasis on SERVICE!
     
  7. r_i_straw

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    Between Raton and Albuquerque, New Mexico
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    The town over 100 years ago.
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    The photo above was probably taken from the hill on the right of the train as seen in this image taken in July 2014.
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    Wagon Mound?? Interesting.
     
  11. r_i_straw

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    Combined El Capitan-Super Chief crossing the flat lands in New Mexico in the 60s. Victor B. D'Agostino photo.
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  13. Kurt Moose

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    Dang, look at all that shiny Warbonnet paint, wowsers!!
    :love:
     
  14. acptulsa

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    What impresses me is all the even shinier bare stainless. Can you imagine anyone buying a locomotive today skinned with stainless steel?
     
  15. Hardcoaler

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    Not a photo, but still old and notable. From the summer of 1945 by Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers, On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. I found this on one of my cassette tapes this afternoon.

     
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  16. BNSF FAN

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    I like it! Never heard that one before (y)(y)(y)
     
  17. r_i_straw

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    From Philadelphia and through Laramie. Wow, that train really got around. Maybe they were from Philadelphia and changed from the PRR in Chicago. Maybe he just added a syllable to Lamy for alliteration purposes.[​IMG]
     
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  18. Doug Gosha

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    I love my parents' generation's music. I have heard other versions of that but not that one.

    Doug
     
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  19. BoxcabE50

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    This reminds me of branch line railroading of my youth, in my region.
     
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  20. Doug Gosha

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    Same here. Looks just like around here except it was Milwaukee Road, CGW, and CNW but I love the blue bonnets. I have the Atlas one from the seventies, temporarily laid up.

    Doug
     
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