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Built in 1903, it's one of the oldest buildings in Seligman and has always (I'm assuming) served as a grocery store. Loved seeing the mural on the side and the old car sitting out front. With the unexpected rainfall, I took the opportunity to get a reflection as its probably not common to see this shot this way.
Doug Harrop Photography • June 4, 1990
Santa Fe 5384 leads an eastbound train through a sag in the right of way as it departs the small yard and former crew change point in Seligman, Arizona.
Santa Fe GP35 3436 accelerates west out of Seligman, Arizona, on March 9, 1972, while the 9843 waits its turn. A 9800 class RSD-15 in 3436's consist makes its smoky presence. Photo by Joe McMillan.
Doug Harrop Photography • March 7, 1995
A westbound Santa Fe train pulls a cut of cars from a side track at the west end of Seligman, Arizona.
Doug Harrop Photography • June 4, 1990
Santa Fe Railway SD40F-2 No. 5253, built Amtrak SDP40F No. 630 in July 1974, leads a mix of cars just east of Seligman, Arizona.
Looking west into the sun at MP 430 on BNSF's Seligman Sub in the town of the same name. This is the famed Transcon, the legendary ex Santa Fe main. Once an important waypoint with a depot and "Harvey House" as well as a small roundhouse and yard, Seligman has lost all its former glory. The passenger station closed in 1954 but remained a terminal and crew change until 1985. In that year the Santa Fe consolidated district's and ever since crews have flown by non stop between Winslow and Needles. The Havasu as it was known would stand until 2008 but succumbed to the wrecker after 113 years that sad year. There is little reason for the railfan to stop in Seligman now, but the name still lingers on the subdivision and the view on the western outskirt of "town" is still as stunning as ever as yet another in the parade of 80 plus trains per day rolls along on the Santa Fe All The Way.
Seligman, Arizona
Friday May 18, 2012
The sun is just creeping over the horizon behind me as one of BNSF's hottest stackers, the eastbound Z-SBDATG7-14L, roars uphill behind 4 GEs. One of the coolest locations I've ever visited!
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Doug Harrop Photography • June 4, 1990
A Santa Fe Railway SD40F-2, built Amtrak SDP40F No. 630 in July 1974, passes the former depot/crew hotel and crew change point in Seligman, Arizona.
S-LHWLPC1-13L is about to duck under an overpass of Historic Route 66 about eight miles east of Seligman. Just ahead: Crookton, start of the 1960 Crookton Line Change that eliminated many degrees of curvature of the prior ATSF alignment to Williams.