Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
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The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States.
ATSF 5051, an EMD SD40-2, leads a train through Marceline, Missouri, in August 1983.
D&RGW through Royal Gorge in 1881
Gold bond of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, issued October 1, 1889
AT&SF and SP Railroad trains meet at Walong siding on the Tehachapi Loop in the late 1980s.
Santa Fe Railroad tugboats
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The Santa Fe Railroad tugboats were used by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to barge rail cars across the San Francisco Bay for much of the 20th century, as there is no direct rail link to the San Francisco peninsula. In the post World War II period, a fleet of three tugs moved the barges: the Paul P. Hastings, the Edward J. Engel, and the John R. Hayden. After cross-bay float service had ended and the tugs had been sold, the Hastings sank off Point Arena, California in 1992, in water too deep to raise. The Engel sank off Alameda, California in 2007 and was raised and scrapped in the winter of 2013-14. The Hayden remains afloat and in service in Oregon.
The tugboat Paul P. Hastings in China Basin, San Francisco in 1982. At this time she was the last of the Santa Fe Railroad tugs still in service
The Edward J. Engel just after she was built in 1945 undergoing her sea trials. Note the fire monitor astern.
The John R. Hayden tugboat at the Todd shipyard in Alameda, California where she was dieselized. She was built in 1945 for the War Department as Large Tug LT-830. The tug is painted in "Warbonnet" colors which were similar to the Santa Fe diesel-electric locomotives of the time.
The Edward J. Engel tugboat with carfloat #8 in the Oakland, California estuary