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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Today's installment for "Throwback Thursday" takes us to the southeast corner of the Kansas State Fairgrounds. In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel ...

AVAILABLE THE JOB FAIR STARTS AT 10:00. AND HISTORIC AND COLORFUL LOCOMOTIVE IS NOWN O DISPLAY AT UNNIO STATION SANTA FE 5704 LOCOMOTIVE PAINTED RED WHITE AND BLUE FOR AMERICA’S BICENTENNIAL IN 197.

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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. — Discovery of hidden damage on former Santa Fe FP45 No. 93 has prompted the locomotive’s owner, the Great ...

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., ...