put a little Santa Fe in your day...

Happy Saturday to you also 

Here is my new Atlas T-man...

Donald

Hey Bill T,

What make is that yellow war bonnet.  I had one in Atlas HO as a kid growing up and would love to get another.

John

Rusty

Got this photo from a Amoco oil photographer who was working on a engine oil field test, I think this is in Kansas.

I think we should change the title of this page to "Show us your El Capitan". Here's my pre-56 El Capitan.

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Wow, Erik, I was just about to take a sip of coffee when that SP crew ran right up to the clearance point against El Capitan, which was passing at that moment.  I had to pour a shot into my coffee after that.  

Another excellent video clip.  Please keep creating them.

marker posted:

Nice Howard!

Number 90 posted:

Erik C Lindgren posted:

 

Wow, Erik, I was just about to take a sip of coffee when that SP crew ran right up to the clearance point against El Capitan, which was passing at that moment.  I had to pour a shot into my coffee after that.  

Another excellent video clip.  Please keep creating them.

Thanks Tom, I will create as much as possible 

A little freight action. 

The El Capitan accelerates away from a small town stop along US Route 66  

models by: Sunset 3rd Rail, Pecos River Brass, Golden Gate Depot, Conquest Models, Don Mills Models

El Capitan with detailed interiors. Look close to see Kachina wall art on walls. 

"Foreign" Santa Fe power:

Rusty

I don't see many trains running around,  saw this today and i filmed to share with you

Jushavnfun posted:

I don't see many trains running around,  saw this today and i filmed to share with you

Wow, I haven't seen a caboose in a while. I know there are some local railroads that still use them but it's been at least 10 years since I've seen one in service. Thanks for posting.

Dave

I just so happened to have this one out and on the rails!

Dave

running the chief and talking Santa Fe shop on the high plains route. 

Rusty, one of my favorites. I assume yours was S. Didn't know, looks great!

Here's mine.

Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. (the trucking subsidiary) had a lot of those eastern style truck tractors out in California when I was young.  In Illinois or Kansas, they probably looked like a lot of the other trucks, but out west, where Kenworth, Peterbilt, and Freightliner dominated, those Macks and International bullnoses were  less common.  Santa Fe ran a lot of GMC conventional and "Cannonballs" of all vintages.  Unlike a lot of other fleet companies, SFTT didn't really standardize on a particular make of either tractors or trailers.  Although GMC and International seemed to be favorites, SFTT seemed to buy from every truck manufacturer.  I never saw a SFTT Kenworth or Autocar, but they had at least a few from every other big truck manufacturer I can think of.

Are there any O scale models of those Santa Fe trucks from the 1950's? I'd kinda like one for my layout. 

Lou1985 posted:

Are there any O scale models of those Santa Fe trucks from the 1950's? I'd kinda like one for my layout. 

Only found one on a quick search and is HO.  Forced perspective it may work.  Die Cast Direct might be a source to check.      1950s-TRUCK ATSF

Lou1985 posted:

Are there any O scale models of those Santa Fe trucks from the 1950's? I'd kinda like one for my layout. 

Green and red are Ertl, yellow is Tootsie.

Tootsie with wood trailer.

Two Tootsie, Athearn 1:50 Ford C tractor and an Ertl GMC/Chevy tractor

Tootsie semi tractors.

  In the lowest photograph the yellow Tootsie has a blue bottom to match the Santa Fe yellow/blue trailer.    John in Lansing, ILL

A couple of classic War Bonnets...

The AT&SF on the S&Y RR

    Bill

Stoneboro Branch posted:

A couple of classic War Bonnets...

Stoneboro Branch, thanks for posting the photos of ATSF passenger diesels.  The photos were all new to me, and I always enjoy floating back to that era.  And then reality rears its head -- I'm older than any of those diesels, but I am still fit for service.  

Number 90 posted:

Stoneboro Branch posted:

A couple of classic War Bonnets...

Stoneboro Branch, thanks for posting the photos of ATSF passenger diesels.  The photos were all new to me, and I always enjoy floating back to that era.  And then reality rears its head -- I'm older than any of those diesels, but I am still fit for service.  

Tom-

Yeah; those are great shots from a private collection I'm helping a gentleman downsize by selling on the big auction website. The first two are 35mm; the last three are large 6cm x 6cm transparencies, which can be stunning when projected or even skillfully scanned. (I'm not there yet, but getting better...)  Until I got ahold of these slides, I wasn't a Santa Fe fan; just another diehard PRR guy, but now, alas, I've been bitten by the War Bonnet bug and forced to expand my horizons a bit!

-Tim

 Just ex-Santa Fe, Progress Rail SD75M leasers in my neck of the woods.