Santa Fe Sunday

Happy SFS. Everyone I am lazy this weekend as for as the layout. Today we are dropping off a Santa Fe Plug Door at the C.E.S. Warehouse. Enjoy your Sunday.

@RSJB18 posted:

Santa Fe 0-6-0 shoving a few cars.

Bob nice overview  of your layout

@lee drennen posted:

Bob nice overview  of your layout

Thanks Lee. Making the most of the available real estate

Bob

Santa Fe/JB Hunt Quantum Service trailer, circa 1991. This is an MTH 48’ trailer repainted.

RM

I know I've posted this in other threads before...  But hey, it's Sunday and Santa Fe:

Rusty

@Rusty Traque posted:

I know I've posted this in other threads before...  But hey, it's Sunday and Santa Fe:

Rusty

Post as many times as you like Rusty we enjoy looking at your stuff

These are scans of newspaper clippings from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper (date forgotten).  This steam locomotive was moved to display in Slaton, TX.

Enjoy your Santa Fe Sunday !

All I have for now! LOL

@mike g. posted:

All I have for now! LOL

Mike, Menards $20.00 freight cars, can't go too wrong with that! I too have a similar WarBonnet boxcar from Menards, different road number though. Also in the photo below with the WarBonnet is a Chief boxcar with graffiti. I have a bushel of Lionel metal sprung freight trucks, so I replaced the Menards trucks with the Lionel on these two units.

Happy Santa Fe Sunday!

Here’s a Custom Lionel FA I painted and decaled recently.

FOR SANTA FE SUNDAY:  The Lionel 2065 Santa Fe style Hudson pulling Santa Fe streamlined passenger cars.  I received the Hudson with a freight set for Christmas when I was 4 years old.  I purchased the passenger cars with allowance and grass cutting money when I was in 6th grade.  

Lionel Santa Fe FA 2 I received for Christmas when I was in 5th grade.  The set of diesels came as an AA set with one powered unit and the other a dummy.  This engine was never a great puller, however at the time all that mattered to me was that it looked cool with the warbonnet scheme ... and that it could handle those 3 passenger cars in fast fashion!  LOL!

Lionel LionChief Plus 2.0 0-6-0T Docksider, Santa Fe No. 95

@Lou1985 posted:

A day late, but how many videos do you want?

HOLY  SMOKE OUT .   NICE  LOU ...........   DON'T  KNOW  HOW   I  MISSED THESE BEFORE  !?

It is 7:00 pm in Floydada, TX and SL-SF locomotive #5010 has arrived ON TIME with QLA. The train will continue west to Plainview and Amarillo, TX on Uncle John Santa Fe with an ultimate destination of Los Angeles.  #5010 will depart Floydada with eastbound CTB (California Tulsa Birmingham) at 8:00pm to return to Quanah, TX and hand off to parent company Frisco at 10:45pm.  #5034 will depart with eastbound 3310 at 11:30pm.

St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co system timetable No. 1 effective Sunday, October 17, 1971 at 12:01am CST

photo credit: Robert R Leese

Rusty

An addition of some new cars to near completion on my "Fast Mail".  GGD 80' coaches, RPO and an MTH 72' baggage. 

A little early Sunday morning get together at the "Charles Street Yard"...the general foreman is wondering what was going on there Saturday night

The Fast Mail Express, lead by Hudson 3463, heads west.

Meanwhile El Capitan, leas by DL109 number 50, heads east.

AT&SF #7 behind my favorite 4-8-4. 

...and a question @Number 90.  Did #7-8 ever have a streamlined rider coach?

Rusty

Hello Santa Fe fans, hope your Halloween Sunday is going well and your candy box is all prepared for the little guys in costume tonight!  Rusty that is some long and beautiful train...I enjoyed seeing all the passenger and mail/baggage cars.  Rusty, never get tired or seeing the real thing...thanks!  Well my offering on this SFSun is very humble.  This little guy only made one very modest but highly collectable appearance.  He was part of the 1963 "Libbys" set which is a rarity in itself.  I have parts of it, but am still looking for the Libby's vat car.

Here he is, a simple one color heat stamp on grey plastic, built 1963, the Lionel ATSF #6076 Hopper Car.  A very inexpensive car, one bay, never offered with a load, no color,  fully plastic including the trucks and couplers.  Things were definitely winding down for Lionel by 1963.

Here is the logo end, proving his heritage as ATSF !!

Here is the end view.

Best Halloween Wishes to All.

Regards

Don

To all: In my above message I made a mistake, the long train was posted by Rob Lees and not Rusty who posted the actual picture of a Santa Fe warbonnet engine.  Rob, sorry for the typo

Respectfully

Don

A B & W night shot at the "Charles Street Yard!" 

Williams by Bachman Santa Fe cop and hobo gondola.

Happy Halloween!

@Rob Leese posted:

AT&SF #7 behind my favorite 4-8-4.

...and a question @Number 90.  Did #7-8 ever have a streamlined rider coach?

Nice train, Rob.

Trains 7 and 8 the Fast Mail and Express, never had a lightweight chair car or combine assigned, although I feel certain that one was used on a few occasions when the regular rider car was unavailable.  

The 7 and 8 of the 1960's used a heavyweight combine with air conditioning and plush reclining seats, or an air conditioned chair car with the same type of seats.  The combine was the "regular" rider car, but the train frequently ran in sections and so heavyweight chair cars caused no increase in the heart rate of any observers.

In an unusual act of bad timing, Santa Fe bought a number of new Budd RPO cars and rebuilt the rider combines used on the mail train, just a few years before the Post Office cancelled the contract that provided the reason for running this train.

Maybe we ought to become organized in petitioning Sunset/3rd Rail for Santa Fe heavyweight chair cars and the rider combine.

The afternoon Caprock switcher picks up a new Lone Star Hi Railers covered hopper on the team track.

Here are a couple from the Archives (I'm finalizing a couple of designs and hope to start the home layout build after Christmas):

Post War Santa Fe F-3s

F-3s leaving the city with a passenger train.

The Super Chief passing the harbor.

Hello, Santa Fe enthusiasts! A lot of great-looking photos and videos this Halloween evening. To keep the ball rolling, here is my contribution.

My meager contribution…Both MTH products…

Tom

A couple of My USA Trains ABA with a Lionel 2343 for size comparison

May have shown this elsewhere, but it's Santa FE sunday.

@AGHRMatt posted:

Here are a couple from the Archives (I'm finalizing a couple of designs and hope to start the home layout build after Christmas):

Nice videos Matt. 👍

I liked how the rock strata was shaped in the beginning of the first video.    It seems to follow the curvature of the hillside.     I noticed that when traveling through parts of Pa. where the highways were cut through the mountains.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice videos Matt. 👍

I liked how the rock strata was shaped in the beginning of the first video.    It seems to follow the curvature of the hillside.     I noticed that when traveling through parts of Pa. where the highways were cut through the mountains.

Thanks. It gets tricky sometimes when you plan out the track, then try to build up the back scenery as if it was there before the track was cut in. I'm going to try something similar when I do my build at home.

Great looking stuff

I shot this yesterday

Erik, You have skills and talent far beyond the rest of us.  Thanks for sharing another fantastic O scale photo.

This is an MTH car modified with an end gate and rear end marker.

A couple of F units waiting to go to work.

Hey good morning guys!