On June 3, 1995, a Santa Fe intermodal train hustles westbound over the big bridge at the west end of Abo Canyon at Sais, New Mexico. Pulling the train are three clean Dash 8s in two varieties.

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A westbound Santa Fe stack train glints a rising sun at 6:30 in the morning as the train crosses the Mojave Desert at Lavic, California, on March 9, 1995.

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A Santa Fe local departs Fort Madison, Iowa, on May 31, 1986. Bracketing EMD GP20 No. 3023 and caboose are three boxcars on the short westbound train. The engine facility is directly above the train in the blue haze of exhaust, while dominating the background is Santa Fe’s yard, along with the large shop building which no longer exists.

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An eastbound Santa Fe freight curves through the heart of Crozier Canyon east of Valentine, Arizona, on March 6, 1996.

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Santa Fe’s 881 train cruises through Bucklin, Missouri, as a herd of cattle gathers on a nearby hillside studying the photographers perched there on May 20, 1989. They’ve seen trains before—you guys—not so much. The Los Angeles to Chicago intermodal train is powered by a pair of EMD SD45s sandwiching a pair of SD40-2s.

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