ATSF Old Photos

r_i_straw Dec 5, 2011

  1. Doug Gosha

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    It was a dry smell, though.

    :D

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  3. r_i_straw

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    I found these parked on a siding in Thompsons, Texas in July of 1996.
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  4. r_i_straw

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    Temple, Texas. Date unknown.
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    Railway Post Office car 3401 in the collection of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the NRHS. Photos from about 1989.
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    Temple, Texas at the Santa Fe Depot 1994.
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    West bound San Francisco Chief at Fresno, California in the late 50s.
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    Centennial State leaving Denver. Otto Perry photo, Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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    Erie Builts, saweeet! (y)
     
  11. r_i_straw

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    Built in November of 1949. Seen here in Cleburne, TX on May 15, 1977. Larry Anglund collection.
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    Recently picked up from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, a Santa Fe Baldwin switcher in a Reading freight train headed West. 2299 was built June 1949. Rich Chapin collection.
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    Kennedale, Texas circa 1910. Kennedale is a small town a few miles southeast of downtown Fort Worth. Courtesy of Tarrant County Historic Preservation and Archives .
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  14. Doug Gosha

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    Ah, next to the original warbonnet, my favorite Santa Fe scheme. I goes perfectly with the Geep "bookend" scheme.

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    Santa Fe E1 #3 in Raton, NM on February 27th, 1938. Its first year of operation. (C) Otto Perry.
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  17. Kurt Moose

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    Beautiful machine-looks like it'd doin' 60mph standing still!
     
  18. Doug Gosha

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    Boy, that F unit isn't missing the edge of the platform by much is it.

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    Excellent! As The Tubes once sang, "She's a Beauty!"

    Seriously, though, I do have a weakness for the early slant nose passenger diesels.
     
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    Is there a man with soul so dead that he doesn't?

    Seriously. I've seen one on The Simpsons. There's a serious train geek working on that show, or there was.
     
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