Current photograph of Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93. (Courtesy of Great Plains Transportation Museum) No. 93 pulled Santa Fe passenger trains between Chicago and California or ...

The 93 pulled Santa Fe passenger trains between Chicago and California or Texas and freight trains ... streamlined, diesel-powered, passenger train locomotives. Santa Fe Railway’s so-called ...

The eye-catching motif first appeared on the diesel locomotives assigned ... Haverty is assigning the war bonnet clad locomotives to the Santa Fe`s high-speed freight trains, which cross more ...

In 1931-32, Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley applied his European experience, along with his work on steam motorcar M-104 back in 1911, as he worked with Winton Engine Manufacturing Co ...

Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...

A non-byline story accompanying the photo reported: A gleaming 600,000-pound four-unit Santa Fe Diesel passenger train locomotive “overshot the field” at Union Station yesterday and stopped ...

A diesel electric locomotive pulls a train of passenger cars on the Santa Fe, described by Fortune in ... Promoters paid little attention to building up the freight and passenger traffic needed ...

In October, Metrolink officials signed an $18-million-a-year lease with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. for 40 freight engines. They hoped to put the locomotives into operation within ...

Locomotive Santa Fe 2926 ... the steam engine for more than 18 years. Santa Fe 2926 was in service from 1944 to 1953, carrying both freight and passengers from Kansas City to Los Angeles and ...

In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel locomotives. This left them with the problem of what to do with the old ones. Santa Fe #735 was born in 1900 in ...

Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...