Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...

In 1931-32, Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley applied his European experience, along with his work on steam motorcar M-104 back in 1911, as he worked with Winton Engine Manufacturing Co., ...

The locomotive had just been unhooked from the El Capitan passenger train from Chicago at 8:45 a.m. on Jan. 25, 1948, when the accident occurred. This image of the unlucky locomotive became the lead ...

Today's installment for "Throwback Thursday" takes us to the southeast corner of the Kansas State Fairgrounds. In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel ...

Wichita, Kans.-based Great Plains Transportation Museum is holding a fundraiser for a full cosmetic restoration of Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93, which was built by the ...

CHICAGO — The Santa Fe railway is slapping on gallons of war paint to do battle with its trucking and rail competitors. The striking red, silver and yellow war bonnet paint scheme that formerly ...

Santa Fe gets 60 locomotives: Chicago-based Santa Fe Railway Co. acquired 60 General Electric 4,000-horsepower, 4-axle locomotives for its intermodal service. The recent acquisitions bring to 123 the ...

Current photograph of Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93. (Courtesy of Great Plains Transportation Museum) No. 93 pulled Santa Fe passenger trains between Chicago and California or ...

A bit of railroad history rolled through San Clemente on Sunday. For a day, Santa Fe Locomotive 3751, said to have pulled the last steam passenger train between Los Angeles and San Diego in August, ...