Dead. Not sure where it went. This one was very much alive (if a bit thrashed), as it pulled CP train 199 west into the beginnings of golden hour at "The Split". The going away shot:
Then and now. The ex Santa Fe 6-6-4 Pullman while we were getting it road ready to let UP move it to the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler. Here is a view of what it looks like today in Chandler in primer paint after a lot of sheet metal work and new windows.
That's a great restoration. Thanks Russ. It's sad to see what we Americans have lost because our government chose not to fund passenger rail as the European and Asian governments did. They have passenger rail with first class schedule keeping service. We have Amtrak. Sorry for my negativity, but I rode SPs Golden State, NYCs Commodore Vanderbilt, B&Ms Minute Man, among many others. I ate from linen table clothes on china with silver service. That was luxury, first class service. Oh well, that was yesterday. Today is today.
Also a radiant heated floor away from the tracks. The shop is going to stay clean as long as I'm there.
1x1 with DPU midtrain. 199s (Chicago-Vancouver intermodal) are typically 1x1, with 10,000+ feet of train. Here's the donkey:
A very nice and atmospheric signal shot SP 9811. Proof that it's not always necessary to have a train in a train picture. I'm glad that you had the foresight to capture it, as it's likely all gone now.
A while ago I posted something about a GE Dash-8 or 9 being donated to a museum somewhere. I thought. that loco is barely half my age... I was about fifty then. That's when I realized how time flies by us. And that I'm in no museum-quality shape!
I believe it will be painted in one of its historical liveries, it had quite a few while in service on the Santa Fe. Probably one of the two tone gray schemes. I always wanted to paint it in “shadow line “ as it spent more time in that scheme than most other revenue cars on the ATSF. Many business cars on the Santa Fe retained it longer. The interior is also being restored to original.
Living in the shadow of the New York Throughway, the Erie's SF Tower at Suffern, NY was still in operation when I shot this in May 1982, though its remaining days were short. A phone pole set at an angle braced the entire structure from the rear, else it would have tumbled down years before. You can see SF in better days to the left of the depot in the postcard below.