Nostalgia & History > FoggFile: 8 Santa Fe 'gators on one train

Howard Fogg captured these 8 'gators' eb on a rainy Sept. 12, 1964 @ Williams Jct., AZ. I think the most of these Alcos I ever saw together were 2, and that was in the Santa Fe yard at Argentine, KS!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/12 08:23 by valmont.

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Wow! Imagine the sound.

There's a picture of 10 of them on the headend of a empty York Canyon coal train in Joe McMillan's Route of the Warbonnets. This train must have sounded great!

Ron

http://www.calcoastrails.com/photos/

That is a "Croc====" of power! wag216

qnyla Wrote:
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> Wow! Imagine the sound.


Imagine the smoke cloud when they try to accelerate under load!

If you have anymore photos from this era from Williams Jct. please post!

CSabresXr1 Wrote:
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> If you have anymore photos from this era from
> Williams Jct. please post!

Will check and post if I find some ...

Image the sound ..... the ringing of alarm bells !!

atsffan Wrote:

> Williams Jct. station didn't last long (1960 to
> early '70s?),

It lingered through at least mid-1979, when Emery Gulash made the cross-country trip whose film footage eventually became Green Frog's "Santa Fe Odyssey v.2." Stills of buildings from that trip are in the two Morning Sun |Santa Fe Facilities volumes, including some May 1979 photos of a delapidated Williams Jct. depot on p.108 of volume 1.

atsffan Wrote:
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> CSabresXr1 Wrote:
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> > If you have anymore photos from this era from
> > Williams Jct. please post!
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>
> Williams Jct. station didn't last long (1960 to
> early '70s?), and it's a bit off the beaten path,
> even to get to the station location east of town.
> It is somewhat rare to see pics of the station.
> Stan Kistler has a nice color shot of the station
> with a passenger train pulling in.
>
> Back in the late 70s, the station foundation still
> had some of the ceramic tile in place from the
> waiting room.
>
> Richard

Hard to believe it was once the busiest station in Arizona, with up 16 trains a day.