I wonder how #5000 would compare to the former Texas and Pacific 610 in terms of miles operated, damage to rails, goodwill generated, etc. A few years ago, UP 4014 traveled the ex-Mo Pac main line from St Louis through Sedalia and on to Kansas City. Just about anywhere people could pull over to take pictures or even take in the sight, they did! At the very least, let's hope ATSF 5000 stays in decent condition for a long time to come.
From July 1980 at Bennington, PA on the former PRR mainline, a fine looking Santa Fe hack moves east. Judging by the consist, I might guess that this was a hot run-through off the Santa Fe. Can't you just hear those flanges squealing?
The other day I picked up an adapter to plug my old floppy disk drive into my new computer. I don't have any information on the first two.
A pair of Electro-Motive Division FT diesels head up a manifest freight heading for Richmond, Calif., on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe in February 1951. Though the white flags mark this train as an extra, Santa Fe train NCX would have a similar consist. Photo from the David P. Morgan Memorial Library collection.
With so many new pics and vids of 2926, why not one from her first million miles? Here she's but a year old, helping sister 3768 handle the California Ltd. out of Trinidad toward Raton. I hope some railroad (yo, BNSF, you have heritage too) allows her back out on the mainline soon.
Peach Springs, Arizona. A post from the Facebook Route 66 Postcards group. "Bird's Eye View of Peach Springs, Arizona on Old National Trails Highway". Santa steam locomotive watering facilities in the background.
Santa Fe Freight Depot – Waynoka, Oklahoma. An undated photo from the Waynoka Air-Rail Museum. Looks like someone is getting a piano.
