Near sunset, a hot 199 train wends its way through Franklin Canyon at Christie, having just exited tunnel 3, the longest on the entire railroad. The cattle on the hillside above the train give it ... (more)
FORT SUMNER NM Sept 25 1988 -- Santa Fe B40-8 7418, SD40-2 5064, SD45-2u 5808 and SD39 4003 have a TOFC train in tow on the Transcon.
FORT SUMNER NM Sept 25 1988 -- Santa Fe B40-8 7418 hauls a TOFC train past a signal at Fort Sumner. The locomotive is only about three months old.
An eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses one of the bridges in the middle of Abo Canyon.
7418 West, a 199 train out of Chicago on a 52-hour schedule to Richmond, rounds a curve at Christie on its ballast-burning trip to northern California.
