Hi Folks,
I was in Santa Fe this past week. Here are some photos that I took at the Santa Fe station.
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It is a pretty neat station. I've been there several times and love it. Not sure I will be back again.
Thanks for the photos. Love the history.
Thank you, Sir.
That is a beautiful country station, which I would like to visit and have a 1:48 scale model of.
The modern locomotives and cars are massive and beautiful in their futuristic/modernistic colors and styles.
The stainless steel passenger cars always have a neat and smooth appearance.
Ralph
That is the station you would expect to find in Santa Fe.....wonder if any O scale
kit has ever been done, or even, HO?
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
It is a pretty neat station. I've been there several times and love it. Not sure I will be back again.
What? Never return there, and you are from Trinidad? And with Albuquerque and the 2900-Class 4-8-4 not much farther? 
You're a stronger man than I am, Lee. It would be almost impossible for me to resist. I might have to revoke your Santa Fe pass. 
Very nice photos,
Thanks for posting the photos, Joe.
I hope you took the opportunity to make a little sashay down to the valley on the RailRunner. Instead of the typical "doorbell" warning that the doors are about to close, the RailRunner uses the Looney Tunes Road Runner "Beep, beep." It's a well-run operation, and I believe that, after it goes off of its own track onto the former Santa Fe, it passes one still-operating semaphore. (That, however, is always subject to change if the semaphore even sneezes.)
Trip report:
There are no more semaphores on this route.
Thankfully, there are several searchlight signals in ABQ including one still mounted on a cantilever.
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At least the train does not have to worry about making a wrong turn at ABQ!
Dominic Mazoch posted:At least the train does not have to worry about making a wrong turn at ABQ!
LOL! IT was a Left turn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWwf-1iwD4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TUwHTfOOU
Something that UPS Frowns upon it's drivers!
Thanks for the info and photos, Rob.
prrhorseshoecurve posted:Dominic Mazoch posted:At least the train does not have to worry about making a wrong turn at ABQ!
LOL! IT was a Left turn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWwf-1iwD4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TUwHTfOOU
Something that UPS Frowns upon it's drivers!
Bugs must have worked for UPS; he FORGOT the left turn.
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I thought I heard or read somewhere that the SFS and the City of Santa Fe had some kind of falling out and they were no longer running. ?????
I don't know about their relations with the city, but Santa Fe Southern is definitely no longer running its passenger train.
Margie and I took a train trip almost one year ago, and the engine was sitting at Lamy, near the former ATSF depot that is used by Amtrak. The Santa Fe Southern track was overgrown with weeds. And, you know me, I had to inspect "up close." I can verify that the engine had not moved in some time -- heavy accumulation of rust on the wheel treads, filthy glass, etc. Lamy is a pretty safe location to leave it; otherwise, thieves would have removed copper contractors and other parts essential to operating the locomotive.
Number 90 posted:I don't know about their relations with the city, but Santa Fe Southern is definitely no longer running its passenger train.
Margie and I took a train trip almost one year ago, and the engine was sitting at Lamy, near the former ATSF depot that is used by Amtrak. The Santa Fe Southern track was overgrown with weeds. And, you know me, I had to inspect "up close." I can verify that the engine had not moved in some time -- heavy accumulation of rust on the wheel treads, filthy glass, etc. Lamy is a pretty safe location to leave it; otherwise, thieves would have removed copper contractors and other parts essential to operating the locomotive.
Several months ago, the Frisco chat groups were talking about the SFS locomotive showing up in Sapulpa, OK. I will have to do some digging to see if anyone knew the final outcome of the unit.
As an aside, I didn't see the Pleasure dome that usually sat in the area. Where did it go??
