This week the new office was set up @ Harbor View, and doing so gave me the opportunity to dig through old photos for an image I could blow up and frame for the wall. The result was a trip back into 1996-97, with images collected from print negatives of several trips to the former (sigh) Santa Fe Transcon when Warbonnets still looked good and could still be found in solid sets.

First up, one of my favorites from the Transcon: Warbonnet GP60M #161 rushes east over US36, leading an assortment of 4-axle power between Marceline and Buckin, Mo, in northern Missouri. If only the geeps weren’t sublettered for BNSF….

Next, B40-8W #539, a GP60B and an unidentifiable Warbonnet lead a westbound vehicle train through Marceline.

 

A triplet of 6-axle Warbonnets rush an eastbound stack train through Marceline. This was and still is one of my favorite spots on the former Santa Fe in Missouri.

 

Next, a pair of Warbonnets lead an eastbound manifest freight through Marceline.

A pair of C40-8Ws lead an eastbound stack train through Bucklin in the winter of 1996.

 

Not ATSF, but still a neat shot of CN SD75Is passing eastbound through Carrollton @ sunset in 1997.

Finally, the ATSF signal bridge in Carrollton @ dusk, same day. These signals are now gone, replaced by “Vader” hoods.