Monday, April 01, 2013

1960's era Santa Fe local freight slowly passing through a yard.

I photographed this digital live sound video last year, at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O Scale Model Railroad Club. My Bachman model of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Alco model S 4 yard switcher, pulls a cut of cars slowly through a small freight yard on the club layout. The locomotive is painted in the 1950's era Santa Fe black and silver"Zebra Stripe" color scheme used by the Santa Fe from 1950 to 1960, when it was eventually replaced by a blue and yellow color scheme. The red Athearn Santa Fe caboose in tow, represents one of several Santa Fe cabooses rebuilt and upgraded at the company's Cleburne Texas railroad shops begining in 1966. Some local freight trains on the Santa Fe actually looked like this, as a number of zebra striped engines did not get repainted or retired until the late 1960's.

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