TOM --You never cease to amaze me with your talent for modeling and scratch building!
That’s freakin old ! It still runs….lol5404 years ago.
These are excellent locos and they are the heaviest ones that I own. As an experiment, I set a single one up with 64 double stack well cars and had no issues with it alone pulling them all. I do not have grades though.I hope these all give me good service once I get my new layout up and running
My Santa Fe addiction is more personal.My Santa Fe addiction,
Wow Willie nice line up yellow and blue were my favorite Santa Fe colors thanks for sharingHow about a lash-up of GP40X's on the main through Vernon on my layout.View attachment 153285
Or 5-CF7's moving light through Charlottesville.
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My dad lived near Zacha Junction in the 90s, so I only ever saw it under KCS, but I can imagine it as Santa Fe. I grew up near Saginaw, which was home to the little Fort Worth intermodal ramp. When I hired out Saginaw is where we had our conductor training. There weren't many places in that yard I hadn't been on my first day as a student!My Santa Fe addiction is more personal.
I lived within bicycling distance of Santa Fe's Zacha Yard (and Zacha Junction) in NE Dallas and spent many hours trainwatching there as a teenager. The yard evolved into an intermodal yard after I went away to college and was eventually sold to KCS, and now to Watco who still operates it as a transload terminal. I still watch the old Ft Worth to Oklahoma City main a little north of Alliance Yard which is nearby. There are still a few warbonnets on that line, mostly on grain drags.