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.   .   .   few more Santa Fe around Kansas City area on my summer '74 visit;
​top: Eastbound Santa Fe PC runthrough "Streator connection" train near Cement City. The only shot I ever took of a Santa Fe U25B leading.
​middle: Eastbound Sheffield crossing Kansas City, MO.
bottom: Eastbound Sheffield crossing Kansas City, MO.
JB



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The summer of 1974 was a memorable one for me. My first RR service came that summer in the form of M.O.W. labor. While you were shooting here on the east side of KC I was toting ties & driving spikes in the Morris ~ Holliday ~ Olathe area on the west side. After seeing nothing but GP-7s & F-units in Abilene, KS in my growing up years I received a visual education and a very enjoyable "wake-up call" to the real, big-time railroading that was the Santa Fe in the early 1970s.

Lance/199

Good shots.Kansas City railfanning was one good aspect about going there.Bill Webb

Excellent images! Thank you for sharing!

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That 3rd shot is pretty interesting, what the heck is the trailing unit? Ah the wonders of variety!

Out

A baby Boat, U25b or 28b.

callum_out Wrote:
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> That 3rd shot is pretty interesting, what the heck
> is the trailing unit? Ah the wonders of variety!
>
> Out

U25B, Santa Fe had no 28B's.
JB



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I ALWAYS love a few more Santa Fe, Your shots are all from MY era!

Amazing photos, I had no idea the U25Bs lasted until the Yellowbonnet era.

Rich

Was?

Regardles, great shots and thanks for sharing!

- Jeff Carlson

spider1319 Wrote:
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> Good shots.Kansas City railfanning was one good
> aspect about going there.Bill Webb

Is that THIRD U25B a dirty Santa Fe or a Penn Central unit?  Conrail was a few years away. It might be the NYC U25B that made it all the way to Conrail in NYC lettering! TFV

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> .   .   .   few more Santa Fe around Kansas
> City area on my summer '74 visit;
> ​top: Eastbound Santa Fe PC runthrough "Streator
> connection" train near Cement City. The only shot
> I ever took of a Santa Fe U25B leading.
> ​middle: Eastbound Sheffield crossing Kansas
> City, MO.
> bottom: Eastbound Sheffield crossing Kansas City,
> MO.
> JB

Don't recall, PC or NYC, one of the two.
JB

Nice shots!

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX