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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1972 - 12/31/2000
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AMTK SDP40F 508
Title:  AMTK SDP40F 508
Description:  Two month old Amtrak SDP40F 508 leads the Super Chief at Albuquerque in July 1973.
Photo Date:  7/17/1973  Upload Date: 10/19/2010 8:54:37 PM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  AMTK 508(SDP40F)
Views:  562   Comments: 1
Ahead of the Storm
Title:  Ahead of the Storm
Description:  A Santa Fe freight runs east ahead of a thunderstorm behind a trio of U36Cs. (8718, 8703, 8728).
Photo Date:  7/17/1973  Upload Date: 10/28/2008 9:00:24 PM
Location:  Willard, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 8718(U36C)
Views:  736   Comments: 0
Amtrak Super Chief in Albuquerque
Title:  Amtrak Super Chief in Albuquerque
Description:  It's 5:45PM and the westbound Amtrak Super Chief is calling at Albuquerque. The three SDP40Fs on the head end are less than two months old; trailing is a 17 car consist made up of Hi-Levels and Heritage cars.
Photo Date:  7/17/1973  Upload Date: 3/22/2009 9:54:11 AM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  AMTK 508(SDP40F)
Views:  1164   Comments: 0
The Super Chief at Albuquerque
Title:  The Super Chief at Albuquerque
Description:  Amtrak's no.3, the Super Chief, slows to a stop at New Mexico's biggest city in July 1973. The SDP40Fs were still brand new- having been delivered only the preceeding month. 18 cars trail; a collection of former Santa Fe Hi-Levels and what would later be called "Heritage" cars from UP, ATSF and SP. As replacements for the motley collection of Es and Fs that Amtrak had started with the SDP40Fs were viewed by most as a sign that Amtrak was off on the right foot. Few, if any, could've forseen their coming problems and the black cloud they were retired under only a few years later.
Photo Date:  7/17/1973  Upload Date: 5/18/2008 9:06:26 PM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Views:  521   Comments: 0
ATSF SD24 4509
Title:  ATSF SD24 4509
Description:  Santa Fe SD24 4509 at Albuquerque in the summer of 1973.
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 1/29/2011 6:59:11 PM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4509(SD24)
Views:  908   Comments: 1
Forward Half: Santa Fe Alligator
Title:  Forward Half: Santa Fe Alligator
Description:  ATSF RSD15 9808 at Albuquerque, summer of 1973
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 2/1/2011 5:39:42 PM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 9808(RSD15)
Views:  633   Comments: 1
ATSF RSD15 9808
Title:  ATSF RSD15 9808
Description:  Santa Fe RSD15 9808 at Albuquerque in the Summer of 1973
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 3/4/2012 10:40:03 AM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 9808(RSD15)
Views:  543   Comments: 0
Westbound into Siding
Title:  Westbound into Siding
Description:  Santa Fe U36C 8714 leads its westound train into siding at Willard NM on a stormy July day in 1973. SD45 5566 trails.
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:17:47 AM
Location:  Willard, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 8714(U36C)
Views:  598   Comments: 1
Alamogordo Local Waiting to Head South
Title:  Alamogordo Local Waiting to Head South
Description:  Rock Island GP40 384 is prepared to take the SP's Alamogordo (NM) local south to El Paso in September 1973. Seven boxcars and an SP caboose make up the entire train today. Traffic was mostly for a wood mill in town along with the occasional car dropped off for the Air Force.
Photo Date:  9/24/1973  Upload Date: 5/25/2011 7:30:11 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CRIP 384(GP40)
Views:  1128   Comments: 6
Santa Fe GP35 3444 at Belen
Title:  Santa Fe GP35 3444 at Belen
Description:  Santa Fe GP35 3444 sits with partner 3442 by the Belen roundhouse in 1973
Photo Date:  10/28/1973  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 1:34:05 PM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 3444(GP35)
Views:  607   Comments: 0
Santa Fe SD24 4575
Title:  Santa Fe SD24 4575
Description:  ATSF SD24 4575 was 13 years old when this picture was taken at Albuquerque in 1973. The unit was in remote-control helper service north to Raton at the time and is shown here coupled to a U23C and r/c car for that work. It would be rebuilt by the company a year later into an "SD26", which would give it a dozen more years of service before being sold to the Springfield Terminal as their 645.
Photo Date:  10/28/1973  Upload Date: 3/15/2008 10:34:55 AM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4575(SD24)
Views:  2863   Comments: 4
New Mexico Semiphores
Title:  New Mexico Semiphores
Description:  These semiphores guarded the south end of Omlee Siding (5359' in 1971) on the SP's Carizozo Sub. The 331 mile line from El Paso to Tucumcari was still dispatched by train orders at that time.
Photo Date:  11/14/1973  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 5:40:55 PM
Location:  Omlee, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  452   Comments: 0
Northbound SP freight
Title:  Northbound SP freight
Description:  Four Rock Island units- a GP40, U25B and two U28Bs, apnroach the depot at Alamogordo NM in December 1973. The crew will pick up orders at the station and continue their trip up the Golden State Route.
Photo Date:  12/28/1973  Upload Date: 1/30/2008 9:19:13 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 270(U28B)
Views:  876   Comments: 0
Rock Island U-Boat In Consist
Title:  Rock Island U-Boat In Consist
Description:  Rock Island U28B 255 works a train northbound through Alamogordo NM.
Photo Date:  12/28/1973  Upload Date: 1/17/2011 7:57:18 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CRIP 255(U28B)
Views:  705   Comments: 3
ATSF SD45-2 5686
Title:  ATSF SD45-2 5686
Description:  Almost-new ATSF SD45-2 5686 sits at Belen. It would serve with the ATSF and BNSF for 28 years before going to NREX.
Photo Date:  12/31/1973  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 1:34:47 PM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 5686(SD45-2)
Views:  552   Comments: 0
Semaphore Dawn
Title:  Semaphore Dawn
Description:  A pair of semiphores silently perform their jobs at dawn on the last day of 1973. The route is SP's Golden State line between El Paso and Tucumcari.
Photo Date:  12/31/1973  Upload Date: 9/7/2009 1:45:23 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  203   Comments: 0
Splittin the semiphores
Title:  Splittin the semiphores
Description:  A Rock Island bay window caboose splits the semiphores neXr Orogrande NM in January 1974. An SP SD45 and RI GP40 are up front, pulling the train towards Tucumcari.
Photo Date:  1/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/30/2008 9:16:14 PM
Location:  Orogrande, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Signal,Action
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Views:  416   Comments: 0
SP Eastbound at Tularosa
Title:  SP Eastbound at Tularosa
Description:  Four units, a pair of SP U33Cs and a Cotton Belt GP40/SD45 duo, bring a train eastbound across Otero County near Tularosa NM in January 1974.
Photo Date:  1/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 10:57:46 AM
Location:  Tularosa, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  423   Comments: 0
SP depot, Carrizozo NM
Title:  SP depot, Carrizozo NM
Description:  Not much for looks, the SP depot at Carrizozo NM was certainly utilitarian.
Photo Date:  1/12/1974  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 10:17:00 PM
Location:  Carrizozo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  399   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon in Alamogordo
Title:  Late Afternoon in Alamogordo
Description:  Cotton Belt GP35 6517 works cars in downtown Alamogordo NM late in the afternoon. The unit brought the Alamogordo Local up from El Paso and will return to Texas once it's job is complete.
Photo Date:  2/5/1974  Upload Date: 4/6/2012 5:42:23 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSW 6517(GP35)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
SP GP20 4075
Title:  SP GP20 4075
Description:  SP 4075 sits with a short MOW train by the depot in Alamogordo NM in April 1974. The 12-year old unit is still pretty much in its as-delivered configuration. Originally numbered 7225, it would later lose its turbo and become SP 4121. It's now with RJ Corman.
Photo Date:  4/16/1974  Upload Date: 9/19/2009 8:03:50 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4075(GP20)
Views:  2193   Comments: 1
Rock Island GP40
Title:  Rock Island GP40
Description:  RI GP40 394 sits in a siding with a northbound train in Jun 1974.
Photo Date:  6/18/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2011 7:57:03 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 394(GP40)
Views:  1694   Comments: 1
ATSF F7A 339L
Title:  ATSF F7A 339L
Description:  Santa Fe F7A 339L at the Clovis terminal when F-units were still common on the road. It's a former passenger unit repainted into the short-lived yellow paint while retaining its stainless steel sides.
Photo Date:  7/12/1974  Upload Date: 2/23/2012 4:53:10 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ATSF 339L(F7A)
Views:  848   Comments: 0
ATSF F3B 201A
Title:  ATSF F3B 201A
Description:  Back when strings of Santa Fe F-units could still be found at Clovis, running east into Texas and south to Carlsbad; F3B 201A sits between a pair of former passenger units. One source says this unit went to GE for a U28CG in 1966, which does not appear to be the case.
Photo Date:  7/12/1974  Upload Date: 3/4/2012 10:39:45 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 201A(F3B)
Views:  1120   Comments: 0
Santa Fe Road Slug 113
Title:  Santa Fe Road Slug 113
Description:  Santa Fe rebuilt a number of EMD F3Bs and F7Bs in the early '70s into road slugs for potash duty in Southeast New Mexico. Initally connected to F7As they soon were wired to CF7s and operated in eight-unit sets on the branches out of Carlsbad and Loving NM. This is slug 113, the former passenger-service F3B 31B. It survived in this work through 1982. It's shown here at work about 15 miles east of Carlsbad.
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 7/9/2009 6:40:27 PM
Location:  Getty, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 113(Road Slug)
Views:  1712   Comments: 0
ATSF SD26 4662
Title:  ATSF SD26 4662
Description:  Santa Fe SD26 4662, only three months after being released from SD24 conversion, shown while pushing a Duval sulphur train at Carlsbad.
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 1:00:48 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4662(SD26)
Views:  536   Comments: 1
ATSF F7B 204B
Title:  ATSF F7B 204B
Description:  Santa Fe F7B 204B at Clovis
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 3/4/2012 10:39:23 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 204B(F7B)
Views:  972   Comments: 1
Potash power
Title:  Potash power
Description:  The potash mines of southeast New Mexico used to get four sets of CF7/slugs to work; here eight units pull out of the National Potash Mine located about 15 miles east of Carlsbad.
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:27:30 PM
Location:  Getty, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 2619(CF7)
Views:  1017   Comments: 0
Potash power, no 2
Title:  Potash power, no 2
Description:  One of Santa Fe's eight unit CF7/slug sets sits at the Carlsbad NM engine facility
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:27:43 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ATSF 2616(CF7)
Views:  1789   Comments: 1
Rear end of the Duval train
Title:  Rear end of the Duval train
Description:  Helpers for the Duval sulphur train- two "SD26s" with a remote control car (no.17, a converted F7B) between them. The standard ATSF red caboose trails.
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:28:19 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 4638(SD26)
Views:  928   Comments: 1
Sulphur Train head end
Title:  Sulphur Train head end
Description:  During the '70s the Santa Fe operated a train from the Duval Sulphur mine at Rustler Springs TX to Houston via Clovis and Lubbock. Today's edition heads south for the mine behind an R/C master equipped SD45 and a pair of "SD26s". The little green 1972 Fiat 850 Spyder off the right was my first car- and not exactly your standard railfanmobile!
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:28:10 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5602(SD45)
Views:  1028   Comments: 1
Potash Power on the wye
Title:  Potash Power on the wye
Description:  CF7s replaced F7As as power in the potash region near Carlsbad NM during the early to mid 70s; they were mated to slugs converted from F7Bs. They were typically found in strings of 4 sets, like this one
Photo Date:  8/12/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:27:56 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ATSF 2623(CF7)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
ATSF F9A 286C
Title:  ATSF F9A 286C
Description:  Santa Fe F9A 286C at Clovis NM. It would later be rebuilt into CF7 2479.
Photo Date:  8/17/1974  Upload Date: 2/18/2012 10:44:11 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 286C(F9A)
Views:  1211   Comments: 1
Clovis Fs
Title:  Clovis Fs
Description:  Santa Fe's huge F-unit fleet served in diminishing numbers into the mid-70s and could be typically found on lines from Clovis NM east. F7A 238L sits in the morning light at Clovis in August 1974 in company of a pair of F7Bs and a CF7. The 24 year old vet will be converted to CF7 2472 in two years.
Photo Date:  8/17/1974  Upload Date: 3/9/2008 8:45:51 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ATSF 238(F7A)
Views:  1175   Comments: 1
Screamin' Eagle: MP GP35 625
Title:  Screamin' Eagle: MP GP35 625
Description:  Missouri Pacific GP35 625 on the ATSF in New Mexico.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 4/11/2009 9:52:39 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 625(GP35)
Views:  1120   Comments: 0
ATSF SD45 5601
Title:  ATSF SD45 5601
Description:  Santa Fe SD45 5601 at the Clovis engine facility
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 1:00:32 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 5601(SD45)
Views:  1168   Comments: 1
Servicing an F
Title:  Servicing an F
Description:  327, a passenger service F7A converted to freight duty, is shown here under the sand tower at Clovis NM
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:26:25 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 327L(F7A)
Views:  1181   Comments: 0
Santa Fe SD26
Title:  Santa Fe SD26
Description:  ATSF SD26 4629 sits in the engine facility at Clovis NM not long after dawn on 18 Aug 1974. The unit had been rebuilt from SD24 4529 only nine months previously; it would work on the ATSF until traded in to EMD in 1985.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:15:18 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4629(SD26)
Views:  2206   Comments: 0
ATSF F9A 286L at Clovis
Title:  ATSF F9A 286L at Clovis
Description:  Santa Fe F9A 286L sits at the Clovis NM engine facility in the summer of 1974.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:20:22 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  1709   Comments: 1
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  The Air Force at one time had an extensive set of trackage at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. This was the northeast end of the line in 1974; Sierra Blanca is seen in the distance.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 10:34:16 AM
Location:  Holloman AFB, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Track
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Views:  462   Comments: 0
SP freight
Title:  SP freight
Description:  A westbound SP freight holds at Alamogordo on a cloudy day in 1974.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:26:10 AM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  300   Comments: 0
SP Station, Vaughn NM
Title:  SP Station, Vaughn NM
Description:  Southern Pacific station, Vaughn NM
Photo Date:  8/8/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2010 8:41:00 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  385   Comments: 0
ATSF GP7 2763
Title:  ATSF GP7 2763
Description:  Santa Fe GP7 2763 works the Clovis Yard in Sept. 1975
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 1:34:21 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2763(GP7)
Views:  732   Comments: 0
ATSF GP7B 2792A
Title:  ATSF GP7B 2792A
Description:  Santa Fe GP7B 2792A working the yard with GP9 2926
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 1:35:03 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2792A(GP7B)
Views:  1622   Comments: 1
ATSF CF7 2582
Title:  ATSF CF7 2582
Description:  Santa Fe CF7 2582 at Clovis NM in the late afternoon sun
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 9:28:06 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2582(CF7)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
A plethora of Santa Fe SD26s
Title:  A plethora of Santa Fe SD26s
Description:  ATSF 4629 leads several sisters and a remote control power car at Clovis in August 1975.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 3:20:23 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 4629(SD26)
Views:  441   Comments: 1
20% of the World's GP7Bs
Title:  20% of the World's GP7Bs
Description:  EMD built only five GP7Bs and they all went to Santa Fe. During the mid-70s you could usually find one or two working as switchers at the Clovis NM yards. Here 2790A assists CF7 2553; it would be rebuilt with a cab and into a GP9U in 1978.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 3/9/2008 8:45:24 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2790A(GP7B)
Views:  2432   Comments: 1
Santa Fe CF7 2624 at Clovis
Title:  Santa Fe CF7 2624 at Clovis
Description:  Santa Fe CF7 2624 at Clovis in September 1975. Rebuilt from F3A 35 2/72
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 2:41:41 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2624(CF7)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
MP and Santa Fe
Title:  MP and Santa Fe
Description:  During the late 1970s the MP ran a nightly Ft Worth to the Santa Fe at Clovis NM. You could usually catch the MoPac power in the morning- as shown here. This was when you could sign a waiver in the yard office and gain access to the entire facility.
Photo Date:  12/19/1975  Upload Date: 1/13/2008 10:55:49 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MP 2124(GP38-2) ATSF 4627(SD26)
Views:  748   Comments: 0
ATSF GP38 3554
Title:  ATSF GP38 3554
Description:  Santa Fe GP38 3554 at Clovis NM
Photo Date:  12/20/1975  Upload Date: 8/12/2010 9:51:18 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 3554(GP38)
Views:  647   Comments: 1


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