Santa Fe Miscellany
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Gators & '30's smoking-up Tehachapi; June 1967
Santa Fe depot at Cutler, CA
(Above) Santa Fe's 2-10-10-2's were successful in showcasing the railroad; otherwise were a disaster. Note: Virginian ran it's 2-10-10-2's into the 1950's.
Cab hop, Kansas City, May 1980
New 3-2-25
added info: 5-13-25 Our original caption read: EMD-powered PA 51(L?) on the point of a southbound San Diegan stopped by a signal under the 91 Freeway at Anaheim, Summer 1965." Nope, Clifford Prather tells us that this actually is a Del Mar Special headed towards its namesake horse track. The Specials ran as following sections of the San Diegan, and the green flags on #51 tell us that this train was the first of two Specials that followed the San Diegan that day. This was a common occurance on Saturdays during racing season. Green flags aside, the presence of the Alcos and heavyweight equipment suggest that this is not a San Diegan.
In the photo, the train was just beginning to pull past the signal seen over the headlight, after waiting for the preceeding train to do its station work at Anaheim platform.
This discussion has brought about another atypical train that I saw perhaps a year or two before, a northbound pulled by one of Santa Fe's few slant-nose E3's and E6's, number unknown, instead of the standard F-units. I don't recall if lightweight or heavyweight equipment filled out the consist. The E's normally were Midwestern power by then, yes?
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(above & right) Local on the San Diego main
at Anaheim, south of the 91 Freeway; Summer, 1965. John: it isn't in tiger stripes, but it's your engine.
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A visit to Barstow on a June, 1967 afternoon: temperature 115 degrees
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Blue smoke: Obviously F-3 #24 (C?) had been idling back at the shops for quite awhile before Wx4 staff shot it being hostled out to wait for a westbound train.
(Below) The 24 (note the sloppy paint touch-up, modelers) hides from the heat under the First Avenue bridge in the company of PA-1 #53L, all ready to go.
New 5-27-18: Alligators normally sun themselves on sunny days, but this one was hiding from the heat in the "foliage" next to the Barstow backshop that afternoon.
New 5-27-18: The lead job at the west end of Barstow yard was handled by this pair of ALCO S-4's.
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Westbound at Mountainair, NM; May 1980
Clovis, NM; October, 1974. No, the 263C is not an F-3, but rather, one of a group of F-7's that the Santa Fe ordered with chicken wire, rather than stainless, grills.
NEW! 5-27-18: A Rambler automobile in a sylvan setting; from ca.1915-1920 glass plate negative by an unknown photographer. What model year is the Rambler, gearheads?
NEW! 5-27-18: An earlier (ca. 1910?) postcard shows less vegitation and a banana tree where the 10-15 year old redwood tree is located in the upper photo.
NEW! 5-27-18: Barstow, ca. 1912; from glass plate negative by Southern Pacific photographer H. C. Tibbitts
NEW! 5-27-18: Point Richmond ferry gate, ca. 1912; from glass plate negative by H. C. Tibbitts
NEW! 5-27-18: Point Richmond on a foggy ca.1912 day; from glass plate negative by H. C. Tibbitts
Bull moose 4-4-2 1425 at Selma, California depot, ca.1913; from glass plate negative by H. C. Tibbitts
NEW 4-30-24: Santa Fe Around San Francisco Bay.............
photos by H. C. Tibbits, Cheney Photo Advertising Co. & others
(click on images for larger versions)
San Francisco ferry slip and yard, viewed from construction of Pier 46; photograper unknown; closeup of yard
Point Richmond ferry slips ca.1912; Cheney Photo Advertising Company
Tail car of the Angel, 1912 - HC Tibbits
Richmond Yard, 1915; closeup - HC Tibbitts
San Pablo Avenue, Richmond, 1915; closeup ; - HC Tibbitts
Berkeley, ca.1914 - Cheney Photo Advertising Co.
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