1980 - AT&SF Along the Santa Fe in Kansas
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Having grown up in the 50's and 60's and worked for a railroad in the 70's and 80's, the depot and caboose are still a critical part of railroading for me. It is difficult to realize how railroads could have abandoned the best end-of-train device - the caboose.
Times have changed and railroads have changed taking advantage of more modern approaches to moving freight. Train orders are no longer needed. Work agreements have changed. Train order operators which compromised a large portion of clerks have been completely eliminated along with the trackside structures they worked in - copying train orders, selling tickets, working less-than-carload freight from a boxcar spotted on the house track, filling out switch lists and bills of lading - now gone.
Here are a few memories along the Santa Fe.
00:01 1981 General Office Building, Topeka
00:05 1981 Topeka passenger station & platform
00:10 1981 Topeka passenger station
00:15 1980 Santa Fe former passenger equipment probably refitted for training, Topeka passenger station
00:20 1981 Santa Fe former passenger equipment, Topeka
00:25 1981 Emporia, Kansas station and passenger platform
00:30 1987 Dodge City, Kansas station and passenger platform
00:35 1981 Florence, Kansas
00:40 1981 Iola, Kansas
00:45 1981 Kinsley, Kansas - One of the most beautiful depots on the Santa Fe. Checking Google Maps, I no longer see it standing.
00:50 1981 Newton, Kansas passenger station and platform
00:55 1981 Strong City, Kansas
01:00 1981 Cunningham, Kansas - typical style small town wooden depot along the Santa Fe
01:05 1981 Sylvia, Kansas
01:10 1980 Yard Office North Wichita, KS
01:15 1980 Wichita, Kansas operator's desk and work area - order board signal lever controls, radio mic on boom, scissor phone and headset to communicate with train dispatcher for train order copy and other communications.
01:25 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-1 caboose 999300 - The CE-1 was the recognizable example of the Santa Fe Caboose. Note modern (and last) window configuration.
01:30 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-1 caboose 999300 - Note ACI bar code just above the "A" in reporting mark "ATSF" & wheel inspection block (black with yellow circle just to the right of the car number and black box COTS (clean, oil, test and stencil) or LUBE plates.
01:35 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-1 caboose 999643 pre-billboard, box car red sporting modern window configuration as did most all Santa Fe cabooses by this time.
01:40 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-8 wide vision caboose 999733
01:45 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-1 caboose 999066
01:50 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-8 wide vision caboose 999733 stencil detail. I believe the black square with the yellow dot signified passed wheel inspection and was a universal stencil across railroads for all types of rolling stock.
01:55 1980 Wichita, Kansas Santa Fe CE-1 caboose 999300
Images are from a personal collection.
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Do you remember the Burlingame station? I wasthere back in 77,78 and 81 when Bud Goebel had his museum there. Now that was really neat to see!
Sorry to say I never visited the Burlingame depot. I love the museums. Thanks for watching and your comment.
@@timetable5245 - both my great-gpa, my gpa and my mom all three worked for the Santa Fe. About 72 years and 6 months, combined service. 30 years, 29 years & 6 months, and 13 years, respectively. Not sure where where either of my gpa's started out, but I do know my grandparents and my mom were living in Great Bend when I was born in July of 75 (we all four moved to Newton either in 76, 77 or 78). My gpa started out working for the Santa Fe in November of 51, as an equipment operator, driving the crane that laid the rails, to make the tracks. I have a B&W photo of him, driving one. His last position was he was bridge inspector for the B&B department (Bridge & Building) when he retired in June of 1981.
My mom started working for the Santa Fe, sometime in 1977 out in Dodge City and she worked in the depot there as a crew clerk. Sometime in 1981, she bid on a job back here in Newton and she moved back. She and a black woman lived & worked together down in Arkansas City while working for the Santa Fe. If I recall correctly, they were down there for like 2 or 3 years or so (it's been so long now, Lol. Can't remember for sure). My mom also worked down in Superior Nebraska during the mid 80's but was working here in Newton at the depot (she also worked out at the Sand Creek yard office) when she left the company in October of 1990 when the SF left Newton, and took their offices to Kansas City and Ft. Worth, Texas.
Thanks for sharing your story. What a railroad family and lots of memories. I wish railroads operated now like they did decades ago. It was so much fun just to walk in a depot and catch up on where trains were and what orders were being hooped up.
@@timetable5245 It's too bad some kids burned it down. That was a neat station and there was if I remember right a wig wag signal nearby too.
@@billmerkle2677 Thanks for letting us know about that - so sad to see any Santa Fe depot destroyed like that.