Nostalgia & History > Where Was Roger Puta?

I am working on one of his Santa Fe groupings he called "Heralds & Signs."  I need location help on three.

1. ATSF KEOTA sign in April 1972.  What state?  If it is a railrosd name, what town is nearby?

2. The letters say "Santa Fe Division Offices".  Photo taken in March 1972.  Where?

3. ATSF Train Board in December 1971.  Where?

4. ATSF in  November 1985.  Where? 

Thanks for the help,
Marty Bernard



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Keota is just north of Raton, N.M. 

Photo #2 - Looks like the entrance from the track side of the La Posada Hotel in Winslow AZ



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dt66200 Wrote:
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> Photo #2 - Looks like the entrance from the track
> side of the La Posada Hotel in Winslow AZ

I thought that too, but why not the name of the hotel?

Marty

Belen, New Mexico on the San Francisco Chief schedule.

Picture #2 In 1957, the hotel closed to the public. The museum-quality furnishings were auctioned off in 1959. In the early 1960s, much of the building was gutted and transformed into offices for the Santa Fe Railway. Several times over the ensuing 40 years, the building was nearly demolished, as recently as 1994 when the railway announced its plans to move out for good.

Regarding photo No.2, LaPosada was closed as a hotel for many years and only used by the railroad as offices until the current owner 
came in and revived it.

The "timetable" for the San Fran Chief.based on the times marked up, is at Bakersfield Calif. 
No guesswork here.

oops.  ChiefWay I inverted AM and PM when I glanced at the timetable.  Those are the Bakersfield, California times for the San Francisco Chief. Thanks for the correction.

What was the 2:45 train blacked out?  



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/16 16:33 by Railpax71.

The irony of it is that in Dec.1971, the date given by Marty, there were NO scheduled trains at Bakersfield.
ATSF No.1 and 2 died with the coming of Amtrak. They were the last two trains thru Bakersfield.

Keota last week.

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#4 is a detail on the south side of the freight depot at Ash Fork, AZ, probably photographed on the same trip as this shot of the whole structure:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4096251

If Puta happened to take a good photo of the whole Santa Fe depot at Bakersfield, CA the same day he shot the schedule board, or even on a different day, please post it.  I've seen very few good photos of it, and never one showing the west end or the north side.

Here is the Winslow station - La Posada hotel - shot taken in May 2016.

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dt66200 Wrote:
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> Photo #2 - Looks like the entrance from the track
> side of the La Posada Hotel in Winslow AZ

You are correct.   I believe this is/was a multi-use structure including the station.   

Wouldn't it be in California or Arizona with "Pacific Standard Time"?

Ron

johncarr Wrote:
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> Marty,
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> #3 best guess is Wellington, KS
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> John Carr in Dallas, Texas

The_Chief_Way Wrote:
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> The irony of it is that in Dec.1971, the date
> given by Marty, there were NO scheduled trains at
> Bakersfield.
> ATSF No.1 and 2 died with the coming of Amtrak.
> They were the last two trains thru Bakersfield.
Did ATSF run predecessors to today's San Joaquin service at one time?  If so, were they discontinued before 5/1/71? 
One of those might have been the "blacked out" train on the Bakersfield sign.

Golden Gate I believe was its name.  I do not know when it was discontinued.  I rode it in the mid 50s with a bus connection to LA from Bakersfield

David Potter
Other, CA

Photo 2 - the wondow above and to the right of the entryway was my office, back in a better era!

Norm

Norman Orfall
Helendale, CA
TIOGA PASS, a private railcar

Westbound Golden Gate Tr.63 departed Bakersfield, CA at 2:45 pm as of the October 1961 Passenger Time Table.  Evidently that's the last time the schedule board got a full repaint, as the Spring/Summer 1959 table had Tr.63 departing at 2:30 pm, and the Spring/Summer 1963 table had it departing at 1:45 pm.  There were originally four Golden Gate trains, Tr.60-63, but Tr.61 came off in 1958.  The other three made their last runs in 1965. 

Bakersfield was also served by the westbound Fast Mail Express Tr.7 in 1961, and that may the the blacked-out train on the third westbound line of the board.