Nostalgia & History > Forty Plus Years Ago (42) - ATSF

Santa Fe 3535 leads a freight past Joliet Union Station in Joliet, Illinois on March 31, 1978.
Bob

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Nice action photo taken at a landmark location.
Thanks for the posting.
ALLEN

Nice shot.  Didn't see many GP38's in Albuquerque in the early 80's, and my eyes got used to the proportions of their ubiquitous GP35's instead.  A GP38 is only three feet longer than a GP35, but for some reason the 38's just look a lot beefier to me.  The GP35's didn't even rate the microscopic snowplow pilots the 38's came with.

Always seemed just a trifle ironic that among Santa Fe's 4-axle EMD's, locomotive 2020 was a GP7, 3030 was a GP20, 3535 was a GP38, and 3838 was a GP50.

Another very nice one at Joliet.
Gary

Looks like a run of the SF local. I got photos of it back when they used a GP-7or 9.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Appreciate anything Joliet. Thanks!

-John

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> Nice shot.  Didn't see many GP38's in Albuquerque
> in the early 80's, and my eyes got used to the
> proportions of their ubiquitous GP35's instead. 
> A GP38 is only three feet longer than a GP35, but
> for some reason the 38's just look a lot beefier
> to me.  The GP35's didn't even rate the
> microscopic snowplow pilots the 38's came with.
>
> Always seemed just a trifle ironic that among
> Santa Fe's 4-axle EMD's, locomotive 2020 was a
> GP7, 3030 was a GP20, 3535 was a GP38, and 3838
> was a GP50.

At that time the GP30/35 was the Coast Lines "do anything" engines. The GP38's were Eastern/Western Lines machines.