Be sure to document any of these elevators. They tend to suddenly disappear! The last one here in my town is currently being demolished.
Seligman, AZ was once a division point and the Santa Fe's station was a very busy place. The station was was razed in 2008, but the railroad remains busy I suspect. These slides were taken in March 16th 1997 and the rail traffic that afternoon was almost non stop. My wife finally put the video camera away, tired of shooting train after train.
CP 7020-SD70ACU (Army Temperate) Massey Station, IA CP 7020 Mines of Spain near Dubuque, IA U.S. side of CP 7020 Dubuque, IA June 3, 2020 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Kingman, AZ is a neat spot, best known for Kingman Canyon where the Santa Fe's double-track main splits and takes separate routes within sight of the other. This is a westbound passing the station. Here's another westbound freight, headed into the canyon. Eastbounds use the easier grade in the foreground. Two trains pass in the canyon.
Judging by the equipment in the consist, early 50s coaches, a Budd diner, no dome lounges, a Pullman sleeper, the trucks on the sleeper, all cars with skirts still installed, I would guess it was either the Texas Chief or the Grand Canyon sometime in the early 50s.
We found a nice elevated view along the roadside of Route 66 at Valentine, AZ. These are from March and June of 1997.
Excellent! I see these on solid CSX fertilizer trains in Minot, ND on the BNSF hi-line. Here's one I bagged last month with fresh CSX leaders: "CSX Heritage Over Gassman" Wispy cirrus clouds glide overhead on the wind as an eastbound empty CSX fertilizer train drifts across the iconic trestle. The matched CSX power and menagerie of CSX predecessor cars made this train a treat.
If it was the 1956 collision between the Chief and a mail train at a siding in NM, then the cause was an error by crewman on the mail train who threw a switch causing the Chief to run into the siding and hit the waiting mail train head on. http://www.gendisasters.com/new-mexico/2141/springer,-nm-flier-mail-trains-collide,-sep-1956 There was another Chief wreck in AZ in 1944 caused by excessive speed: http://www.arizonawrecks.com/favoritelinks/santafechiefwreck1944.html http://www.arizonawrecks.com/wreckofthechiefpage2.html
Nope, still researching this one. It was a train that had both coach and first class fares in the early 50s so that would rule out the Chief which was still all first class at that point. The trees in the background are also nothing like New Mexico.
Sometimes ya gotta take what you get and be happy with it. Case in point is this shot at Topock, AZ where the Santa Fe main crosses the Colorado River into CA. After a long wait, we heard motors to the west and anticipated a nice shot of the mighty Santa Fe in action. Instead, a three car local appeared and was gone. Oh well.
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. Don't care, great photo regardless of your druthers.
