SHOW US YOUR SANTA FE EQUIPMENT PLEASE!!!!

C. sam I sure like the variety of Santa Fe equipment in your pictures. Thanks for the very nice post.

We have added 3 Santa Fe Diesels to our roster and wanted to show one of them running a GRAIN TRAIN on our layout.

We also added some ATSF Black Bonnet 2 bay hoppers to our GRAIN TRAIN.

Also added 3 ATSF cabooses to the caboose roster FOR OUR LAYOUT.

We were able to add several more K-Line ATSF 4 bay hoppers for our grain train along with some other Santa Fe Hopper cars.

How is this one Bill.

Here's a Santa Fe set we just added a couple of weeks ago.  Lionel's E-6 units....not the greatest picture to see them but all I have for now!

- Mike

Mike:

Just love the SF E6s. That is a super purchase. Good luck with them.

Look forward to meeting you personally next month at Alex's open house.

W O W!!! Brian Now that is a BEAUTY. I tried to count all the drivers and could not find enough fingers to count with   That is one SWEET ENGINE. Thanks for sharing with us.

Mike the E-6 looks just GREAT!! I think I have the E-8 and the E-6 to pull my 21" K-line's. I need to get those wide sweeping curves in place so that they can get rolling.

Mike, that E-6 is incredible!  I'm going to have to start saving my pennies...

The only Santa Fe motive power we have out on the layout right now is our "clear bonnet" ABBA.  While I usually lean prototypical, this was too cool to resist:

The zebra is a little out of scale... Our 1 and 3 year olds like to help decorate the garage layout from time to time.  The clear shells are great for showing the kids how the trains work:

-Dustin

Penn Station in the basement looked a little like Dearborn Station in Chicago when all the Santa Fe Chiefs arrived.

Bill:

This is one of my favorite Sante Fe F units. It is the first of the Lionel scale series introduced many years ago. This engine gets regular service on our layout.

frizzinbee

The clear body Santa Fe units are very ciil inded. Thaks for sharing them.

BANDOR

vERY NICE!!

PTC

Very Very nice, I like the night picture. Seems that the darkness brings out more reality from our layouts. Brian thank you for sharing.

Since I had posted my Yellow Bonnets on another thread I thought I should also show them here.

These are the MTH YELLOW Bonnet's

Bill I absolutely love these!  I kinda think I'm set for Santa fe equipment, but then again, if I came across a set of these at a decent price...  

Brian and frizzinbee, thanks for noticing.  yes, Brian, I hope to say hello and chat in person in a few weeks.  Glad to hear you're making the trip down.

- Mike

Mike

I thought the same thing several Santa Fe purchases ago But in fairness to our Santa Fe roster they are so out numbered by the CN/GtW  I must help the mix every now and then

Here are a couple.

First is a scene of the arrival and departure of the El Capitan at the Seligman depot and Harvey House.  It is a scratch built replica of the station at Seligman which sadly was torn down about three years ago when the town could not raise the money to preserve it.

Next is a Lionel Dash 9 after crossing the Bascule bridge at the Colorado River.  It was a test run after I modified the bridge to raise it to be able to clear scale sized double stacks.

Peter\WOW you did an OUTSTANDING JOB ON THE TERMINAL!!! The Santa FE of course enhances the picture also . You Bascule bridge as looks excellent. Thank you for sharing.

I bet you have a HOT DAY GOING out there in AZ today. We about 90 thisafternoon in Michigan. Peter thanks for your beautiful pictures. Bill

Mike I will keep my eyes open for you and a set of yellow bonnets

My GP9

Denny

Very nice thanks for sharing with us.

This Vid is of an HO EL CAPITAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u79clley71c

Here is the closest thing I have to Santa Fe

Frank, great picture of the all time classic.

Frank

Your layout picture is AWESOME. wow!! i

Santa Fe Warbonnet's  Making it through Reton Pass

Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-WlrjSssdvc&feature=endscreen

I like the 4 bay Santa Fe Grain Hoppers but also havr found the 2 bay Black Bonnet hoppers to be vey nice also. Both are by K-Line

Lot of great Santa Fe equipment out there.  Here are a few pics of some of our Santa Fe steamers and diesels that I took with a camera phone (sorry for pic quality).  The first one is my son's Santa Fe Flyer, the others are one of our diesels and our scale steamer (2921) and some passenger cars. 

Ben looks like you are staying on the coast. Is the picture of the Hotel model on the NJHIRAILERS?

Santa Fe Va

Very nice layout and Santa Fe equipment. Thanks for sharing.

I run stuff from my region, so not a lot of West Coast RR's in my roster, but you almost have to have a Warbonnet right? So here's mine.

Paul

The War Bonnet looks GREAT on your VERY NICE layout.My roster is almost all CN & GTW much like you and the regional roads but I just had to have the Santa Fe since it was my first Diesel in the early 50's. Thanks for sharing with us.

The Chief

OK, you asked...

aNDY THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US.

The heavyweight Chief

The Portland Rose

Very nice Santa Fe equipment! I don't have any of the Santa Fe heavy weights so it's nice to get to see a srt run. My Santa Fe Passenger cars are all K-Line 21" aluminum so it's a treat to see the HW's. Thank you for sharing the Video's

Have to post a new Santa Fe Hopper and a caboose.

A quiet morning in Caprock Yard . . .    FT's 176L-176A-176B are going to run light to Clovis for an eastbound perishable train to Kansas City.  The engine has come out of the engine house and stopped in front of the telegraph office to pick up a numbered clearance card and train orders.   Alco-GE RSD-4 2107 has its nose up against its waycar.  The 2107 is power for the Second District Local today, and will have to drop ithe waycar into a clear track today to get in front of it.  Normally, the daylight switch engine gets the waycar out of the stub track and places it where the Local can get it, but today, the switcher is blocked in.  The T&NO trackage rights local that runs into and out of Caprock came in "on the law" and left their engine -- SP Baldwin AS-616 5235 -- just in the clear on a yard track.

The Engineer on the switcher, which is using F-M H-10-44 502, is sitting on the engine, waiting for the hostlers to come over from the engine house and move the SP unit.  The Switchmen are playing dominoes in the shanty while they also wait.  

 Popsrr, normally, "yellow bonnets" are not my favorite Santa Fe units, but MTH really did a nice job on these.  Very nice engines.  And, since they're MTH, we know they will crawl at 1 MPH and put out enough smoke to make the General Manager holler downstairs. 

I worked on some finishing touches for this A unit. Body mounted the pilot and a Kadee coupler (rear end only), added a folding diaphragm, and a bit of weathering to the grills and pilot. Santa Fe kept these units pretty clean, so 'll leave them like that. I got the B unit painted and decals applied so I have to get it all back together and give it some weathering to match it's leader.

Some light weathering to 14L 

No more gap between the body and pilot.

This folded diaphragm, along with the body mounted Kadee, allows close coupling at still run on the 072 curves  our layout.

WOW Great job on these beauties. Keep upthe WONDERFUL work!! Thanks for sharing with us.