View of the old Santa Fe Railroad yards at Wichita, Kansas in 1877. The first Wichita passenger depot on far right. (Wichita Public Library)
So someone else noticed it, too! I was wondering if my eyes were playing tricks. I do not see a roofwalk. It sure has large displays of some type on the sides. Circus wagons, maybe?
3751 with the San Diegan. The train is enroute to Los Angeles with orange groves on the left and Lincoln Ave. on the right, Santa Ana, CA, 1951.
I can't remember, but one of these was just restored this last summer! Saw some pics online, it's beautiful!
Yeah, Stephen Priest was the project manager for the team at Mid-America Car of Kansas City for the restoration. The locomotive has been donated to the Southern California Railroad Museum in Perris, Calif.
BAM!! That's it! Soooo cool they restored it! So many small details, even a replica ACI panel on the handrailing!
Three RSD-15s hauling the goods over Cajon Pass. Note the crewman on the roof of the second stock car. Chard Walker photo, Stephen Priest collection.
I think it is just the standard black and silver that those locomotives were delivered from Alco wearing. The other two have recently been repainted to the new ATSF "Bookend" paint scheme.
That Zebra paint scheme looks awesome on an RSD-15, regardless. Very cool photo! The blue and yellow for Santa Fe is what I remember best, railfanning in my youth whilst visiting relatives in Topeka and Lawrence, KS. Soooo many GP20s at that time! One thing I am still kicking myself for is having never photographed any of the few "Kodachrome" scheme units that rolled through. Ah well...
Not exactly! It's unique in my experience looking at photos. No upper silver pinstripe, no blue logo, just a big, fat, bookend-like but silver Santa Fe on the side!
Looking for images on the internet I have only found photos of that scheme on models. However on one site, I found this information.
Baldwin always painted whitewalls on the rims of the locomotives they photographed prior to delivery, even into the diesel era. And many old Santa Fe steamers get whitewalls when repainted. But by the late thirties, the road favored blackwall tires, though they did pony up yellow paint for the rods and valve gear. This pic is prewar. The first few 3400 Pacifics and 3450 Hudsons rebuilt received Scullin drivers, but by war's end the Scullins were replaced by Universal disc drivers. Half a dozen 3400s never got disc drivers at all, but that set of Scullin discs were pulled and scrapped anyway.
