Brian, Santa Fe rednose F7 304L appears in a lot of photos, mostly by coincidence. It was purchased in 1949 as the leading unit of a bobtail (A-B-B) consist, and it's on the point of the Super Chief in the famous Blanchard, NM, Company photo which hung in so many Santa Fe ticket offices. It's an "old friend" -I ran it a couple of times when I was a passenger Fireman in the pre-Amtrak days.
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