It seems like there are threads for some railroads so I decided to start one about the Santa Fe Railway. Post anything about the Santa Fe here.
Don’t tread on me.
Dave
Well i did love their GP38-2 engines. WOW when i started conrail thread for everybody. I didn’t know that for everybody thread would be huge hit with everybody.
Chico’s children don’t like being stepped on. Please edit the subject header…
One of Chico’s Orphans
Another Orphan here. I don’t know what the thread was originally called, but I’m glad it has been corrected. Thanks for catching that mudchicken. This thread has come up at a great time. The annual Santa Fe Historical Society’s annual convention in Amarillo, TX is this week. The convention is sold out, but details of it can be found on the Society’s website www.atsfrr.com.
Santa Fe-ALL THE WAY
Russell
I liked the yellow and blue before they whent to going siver and red.
Santa Fe had a certain style in operating its passenger service at all levels. The equipment listing for the last remant of #3/4, by then a Kansas City-Gallup mail train, stated that it was not recommended for passenger travel. #7/8, the “Fast Mail”, wasn’t even listed in the public timetable, even though it would handle passengers. Obviously, the railroad believed that it should present the best possible image to its passengers.
I have posted this before but with so many new members here I thought I would post it again as it sums up why I got into the Santa Fe. I wrote this in the early 90s.
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The Steel Freeway
I am a die hard Southern Pacific fan. It’s no surprise. I grew up in a SP world. At least when it came to trains that is. My family heritage had something to do with it. My mom’s mom was from a SP family. Her father, my great-grandfather, was a SP conductor. Two of her brothers were SP conductors. One of them, Neil Hallamore, was not only a conductor, but also the union representative for the division. Though that is not the main reason I am a die hard SP fan.
The biggest reason I am a die hard SP fan is that I grew up next to the Southern Pacific. The first ten years of my life I lived in on the SP coast line. Some of my first memories were of SP trains pulled by the mighty tunnel motors. They were huge machines of the most impressive caliber to my very young and impressionable mind. When I was ten years old my family moved to , Ca. on the peninsula. We lived just 2 blocks away from the SP line between and
What was wrong with the subject header? I can’t figure it out.
You had Santa Fe Tread for Everybody instead of Thread for Everybody. A simple mistake.