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What did these tank cars carry?

It will probably take more time & money to add another AXLE. It would be a whole lot easier & cheaper just to buy a 2-8-0.

Agree wholeheartedly with montanan about smoking model locos, whether diesel or steam, produce a very POOR EXCUSE for smoke. Besides, no maker advertisements show side by side comparisons!!!!

Gee really? Didn't know that. ~}

On my Los Angeles Junction Ry layout can have Santa Fe, SP & UP diesels doing interchange work, but NO BuNSnifF. ~}

Never have been a fan of switchbacks, so made a few changes. Added a runaround to the right side of yard. Also added a few more industry spurs to give folks some ideas where they might go. It was done in Picasa & couldn't do curves. Since the 2 depots are so close together, think about running...

Looks more like shims are needed above the coupler box, not just the coupler. If that doesn't work see how much offset Kadees give you. You can email or call them for more help.

There's also the ATSF & Santa Fe Yahoo Groups sites that you can ask your questions. They may have gone over to Groups.io by now.

Get "A Quarter Century of Santa Fe Consists". That should tell you pretty much of what cars were in the 1954 El Capitan. Do your own Google search for Santa Fe interior colors if Clint's posts don't heip you.

But there's no fins on the 57. ~}

Most RRs would have just put fill across that gully with culverts ro drain any water.

Know model RRers love bridges, but to the real RRs they are VERY EXPENSIVE! In a yard situation, a drainage of any size would be avoided or filled in/rerouted. Out on the mainlines, that's not always possible. Through time, especially in the modern era, wooden trestles would be replaced by steel...

Boxcars are still being used, just not where you are seeing BunSNifF. Here's a bunch on a Los Angeles Junction Ry spur. It's one of their subsidiaries.

Check the NEW/BLT dates on your cars to see if they would have run with a Pacific. My guess anything older than the 1950s would not have been pulled by one of those. Why not get a 2-6-0 or 2-8-0 to pull your freight cars? But most RRs had stopped using steam by the mid 1950swhen they had more...

On some Santa Fe branchlines, they mostly used doodlebugs to pull 6-8 car trains. If there were more cars that needed to move cattle or grain, they used Alco, EMD or FairbamnksMorse. road units