A diesel electric locomotive pulls a train of passenger cars on the Santa Fe, described by Fortune in 1948 as the top U.S. railroad. Getty Images This was a remarkable accomplishment, but Congress ...

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 ...

(KWCH) - Wichita’s Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) is kicking off a fundraising effort to perform a full cosmetic restoration of historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No ...

A non-byline story accompanying the photo reported: A gleaming 600,000-pound four-unit Santa Fe Diesel passenger train locomotive “overshot the field” at Union Station yesterday and stopped ...

In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel locomotives. This left them with the problem of what to do with the old ones. Santa Fe #735 was born in 1900 in ...

Once ready for display, it will join a collection of other Santa Fe equipment and railroad signs, many with roots in the Chicago area. The museum already has a Santa Fe locomotive on display.

The city of Slaton did not exist until it was essentially created as a Division point for the Santa Fe railroad in 1911. The city of Lubbock, which was two years old at the time, tried desperately to ...

(Courtesy GPTM) The historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93 is one of several trains currently at the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita’s Old Town. The engine ...