Sure do miss the old Santa Fe, they always had the best lash ups before the merger with BN which screwed that up, now all i see is GEs on BNSF, the only Geeps i see are in the yard and even those are running their last miles, i only prefer to watch UP trains because i always see something different
The Chillicothe "station" used to be the club house. It was where crews would overnight before returning on a job to their home. It became the station when the wooden station behind where the photographer stood, burned in '59 or '60. My Dad & 3 other kids got a subcontract in the 1930s to hand dig the basement. The dirt was hauled away by mule and horse. In the '60s & early '70s on warm nights, many people from North Chillicothe (offical name until merging with Chillicothe) would filter down to the station at "train" times to see who was going and coming on the many passenger trains. This built a sense of community. I was always surprised how many people we would meet from our life in Peoria. My family did not believe in AC back then. (The houses were designed to be cool in summer, shaded by trees and warm in winter. So the heat was not bad.) But the windows must be kept open day and night, except in driving rain. I definitely miss falling asleep to the switcher horns moving cars around in the yards and hearing hot shot freight quickly dropping off and taking on crews.
My 5 th favorite train the Santa Fe beautiful red and silver train which is awesome. Long time ago when I was 14 or 15 years old i had Santa Fe train set but instead of red and sliver it was Blue and yellow quite interesting. But unfortunately the rails cars and the train engine derailed off the bridge and broke. Sadly the engine was ruined and couldn't work any more and my cars broke too. Couldn't keep it so I fortunately my mom told me also the grandmother told me to throw out in the garage. So I carefully looked at it see how bad it is broken and couldn't get it fixed so I unfortunately i had to throw it out rotten shame it was a nice beautiful blue and yellow engine and nice train set too
If you think about it, the dissolution of both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific was inevitable. Either the SPSF merger would have been consummated and most likely the western super system would suffer the same ill fate as Penn Central, or they would be merged into the BN and UP, as what actually happened. Most likely, the result of a hypothetical SPSF merger may have caused the UP and BN to draw up a merger plan, as a southwestern super system would have tipped the balance of competition solely in favor of the new system, so most likely the UP would need the BN to survive. The redundancy of the new SPSF system would most likely be grounds for abandonment of thousands of miles of trackage, and almost certainly a mass lay-off of thousands of employees as well, triggering a massive labor dispute. I'd imagine this would cause the SPSF to collapse, leaving either the Santa Fe or SP as a sole survivor, or another western road to take it's place, either UP, BN, a combination of the two, or possibly some sort of Conrail like system put in place to pick of the pieces. So I guess, critically speaking, it was it good thing the cards fell the way they did.
Tremendous! The Santa Fe is without a doubt my all time favorite fallen flag railroad. Such a shame it's gone.
Sure do miss the old Santa Fe, they always had the best lash ups before the merger with BN which screwed that up, now all i see is GEs on BNSF, the only Geeps i see are in the yard and even those are running their last miles, i only prefer to watch UP trains because i always see something different
The Chillicothe "station" used to be the club house. It was where crews would overnight before returning on a job to their home. It became the station when the wooden station behind where the photographer stood, burned in '59 or '60.
My Dad & 3 other kids got a subcontract in the 1930s to hand dig the basement. The dirt was hauled away by mule and horse.
In the '60s & early '70s on warm nights, many people from North Chillicothe (offical name until merging with Chillicothe) would filter down to the station at "train" times to see who was going and coming on the many passenger trains. This built a sense of community. I was always surprised how many people we would meet from our life in Peoria.
My family did not believe in AC back then. (The houses were designed to be cool in summer, shaded by trees and warm in winter. So the heat was not bad.) But the windows must be kept open day and night, except in driving rain. I definitely miss falling asleep to the switcher horns moving cars around in the yards and hearing hot shot freight quickly dropping off and taking on crews.
I love the paint scheme and the gp60m
My 5 th favorite train the Santa Fe beautiful red and silver train which is awesome. Long time ago when I was 14 or 15 years old i had Santa Fe train set but instead of red and sliver it was Blue and yellow quite interesting. But unfortunately the rails cars and the train engine derailed off the bridge and broke. Sadly the engine was ruined and couldn't work any more and my cars broke too. Couldn't keep it so I fortunately my mom told me also the grandmother told me to throw out in the garage. So I carefully looked at it see how bad it is broken and couldn't get it fixed so I unfortunately i had to throw it out rotten shame it was a nice beautiful blue and yellow engine and nice train set too
Back when the Santa Fe Railroad was beautiful. The Warbonnet scheme was the best.
It just doesn’t get better than this.
GREAT VIDEO THANKS FOR YOUR VALUABLE TIME SPENT IN THE FILMING AND PRODUCTION
Brrr 🥶 that had to of been cold with those trains zipping by at high speeds kicking up all that snow and debris.
Those AC units are very new at this date.
This is why I don't like BNSF too much...
If you think about it, the dissolution of both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific was inevitable. Either the SPSF merger would have been consummated and most likely the western super system would suffer the same ill fate as Penn Central, or they would be merged into the BN and UP, as what actually happened. Most likely, the result of a hypothetical SPSF merger may have caused the UP and BN to draw up a merger plan, as a southwestern super system would have tipped the balance of competition solely in favor of the new system, so most likely the UP would need the BN to survive. The redundancy of the new SPSF system would most likely be grounds for abandonment of thousands of miles of trackage, and almost certainly a mass lay-off of thousands of employees as well, triggering a massive labor dispute. I'd imagine this would cause the SPSF to collapse, leaving either the Santa Fe or SP as a sole survivor, or another western road to take it's place, either UP, BN, a combination of the two, or possibly some sort of Conrail like system put in place to pick of the pieces. So I guess, critically speaking, it was it good thing the cards fell the way they did.
Wow great footage!
The year after the merger, still santa fe, what we used to see
And to think I was two years old...
It wasn't TRUE BNSF until January 1st 1997.
I’m thinking about finding a picture of 3751 and giving her a warbonnet paint scheme like these. I’ve been thinking about it a long time.
Really do miss those warbonnets
I remember the War Bonnets, Blue Bonnets and the Zebra Stripped Locomotives. Awesome video :-)