Cerrillos, New Mexico
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A westbound Santa Fe manifest, powered by a half-dozen GP30’s and GP35’s, passes over the track that it will soon occupy after it navigates the Tehachapi Loop.
When a train led by a GP30 went through Walong, we had high hopes of getting a train passing under itself, preferably with the caboose on the upper level. We were about 20 cars short.
Passing a watering hole for the local cattle, three relatively rare SD39’s pull a westbound train at Watrous, New Mexico.
A lone Santa Fe GP20 rolls a single coal hopper, most likely a bad-order repair, through Larkspur, Colorado. This consist is quite a bit smaller than the usual 4-5 unit, 100+ car trains that frequent this line.
And another FB post, eastbound QLANY at Kingman, Az on September 25, 1994. One of the "required" Santa Fe shots on the 90's.
Exhibiting an “open door” policy most likely caused by overheating on a warm May day, Santa Fe SD45R 5329 leads a westbound train drifting downgrade out of Bealville.
An eastbound Santa Fe manifest passes the semaphores at Levy, New Mexico on Santa Fe’s Raton Pass line. In the distance, a westbound is waiting on the siding.
Fifty-four years ago, Santa Fe SAN DIEGAN Train No. 75 makes a station stop at Fullerton, California. Except for the station building, this scene is barely recognizable today. February 26, 1971.
Two Santa Fe F45’s and two SD45-2’s guide a westbound pig train down the steep (3.3% grade) north track just west of Cajon Summit. Today, the location is called Silverwood, but I don't recall that name during my visits in the '80's and '90's.
A pair of Santa Fe cabooses punctuates the end of a train of empty piggyback flats as it climbs the Tehachapi grade at Cliff Siding.
After shooting a southbound Santa Fe train on the bridge at Larkspur, Colorado, we dropped down to road level to get the caboose on the landmark bridge.
Good subject; the lighting not so much. On June 11, 1968, we're pacing Santa Fe Train No. 75 between Texico and Clovis, New Mexico. This is the California Special, which is running from Houston (with connections from Dallas\Fort Worth) to Clovis, where it will connect with the San Francisco Chief. The train will be discontinued the following month. GE U28CG 354 leads the train.
April 17, 1971, was a grubby day to shoot trains on Tehachapi, but it was a great day to be there. Battle-weary SP F7A 6430 is running out its last days in helper service and is in the Bealville siding with a southbound manifest as Santa Fe 5619 scoots by on the main. Regardless of the weather, Techachapi was always the place to be with a camera or just watching trains pass.
A Classic Santa Fe caboose brings up the markers on an eastbound Santa Fe train at Ilfeld, New Mexico.
A westbound Santa Fe manifest descends the Tehachapi grade at Keene, California. GP30/GP35 power was quite common in this era.
t's a cloudy April 17, 1971, a busy day on Tehachapi. SP 3207 is leading the northbound SAN JOAQUIN DAYLIGHT around the iconic loop at Walong, California. The Santa Fe units are off a southbound train left at Woodford, the next siding north. The AT&SF locomotives helped push a stalled northbound SP freight into the Walong siding to clear up for the DAYLIGHT. (You can spot the top of the SP caboose behind the four units.) As soon as the DAYLIGHT clears, the Santa Fe units will follow and couple to their train at Woodford.
It was a cloudy day, but because of all the action, it was one of my best trips to that popular piece of mountain railroading.
My friends and I found Cajon to be a somewhat frustrating place. After getting the “easy” locations, we started to set up at the less-accessible spots. In this case, we were ready for trains on Santa Fe’s south track, and everything ran on the north track in both directions, and a few SP trains passed as well. Here an eastbound auto train climbs the grade with five GP35’s and a GP30 for power.
At the end of a long day spent driving through Abo Canyon we caught one of Santa Fe's SD75Ms screaming out of the siding at Sais, NM on its last lap into Belen. It was a challenge holding my 300 mm lens steady in the fierce wind that sprung up just before sundown.
An 86 car eastbound Santa Fe manifest rolls past the passing track at Levy, New Mexico. While freights were scarce at this time, they have since become nonexistent.
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.
Why do the best things always show up after the sun disappears? – In the era just before Santa Fe’s unsuccessful merger with the SP, and before Superfleet, it was uncommon to encounter matched sets of road power. After a day of photography on Cajon, we were ready to head to dinner when we saw this train descending the pass. One more frame of film had to be burned to capture one-third of the Santa Fe’s rebuilt FP45’s leading an intermodal train at Devore. Note the westbound SP train in the distance at the upper right. Exhaust from the lead power and the helpers is visible.