A Santa Fe civic organization dedicated to preserving history has restored a long-retired steam locomotive that once ferried soldiers to war and later served as a historic artifact for those visiting ...
Apr. 30—For the first time in decades Santa Fe steam locomotive 2926 is going places, making tracks on Saturday, May 6, from its home yard on Eighth Street NW to a public appearance at a brew pub a ...
The locomotive had just been unhooked from the El Capitan passenger train from Chicago at 8:45 a.m. on Jan. 25, 1948, when the accident occurred. This image of the unlucky locomotive became the lead ...
The loud choo choo and clanging of Santa Fe steam locomotive 2926 filled the air as it pulled in at Tractor Brewing Company on Fourth Street in Albuquerque on Saturday morning. Children excitedly blew ...
Santa Fe gets 60 locomotives: Chicago-based Santa Fe Railway Co. acquired 60 General Electric 4,000-horsepower, 4-axle locomotives for its intermodal service. The recent acquisitions bring to 123 the ...
Amarillo’s history includes pioneers, cattle and barbed wire. But the city itself began with railroads. It arose as a cattle shipping market where two railroads met south of the Canadian River. One of ...
A bit of railroad history rolled through San Clemente on Sunday. For a day, Santa Fe Locomotive 3751, said to have pulled the last steam passenger train between Los Angeles and San Diego in August, ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Wichita’s Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) is kicking off a fundraising effort to perform a full cosmetic restoration of historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric ...
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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., ...