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Gators & '30's smoking-up Tehachapi; June 1967




(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


(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.


A visit to Barstow on a June, 1967 afternoon: temperature 115 degrees

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.


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

NEW! 5-27-18: Bull moose 4-4-2 1425 at Selma, California depot, ca.1913; from glass plate negative by H. C. Tibbitts

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Santa Fe depot at Cutler, CA

August 1979