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Santa Fe 1993-1994 Annual by Kevin EuDaly Soft Cover
Santa Fe 1993-1994 Annual by Kevin EuDaly
Soft Cover
Copyright 1994
144 pages
Introduction 4
Strong City Subdivision 84
York Canyon Coal 8
Local Train Schedules 88
The Venerable GP3O 38
Dublin Subdivision 102
The DASH 8-4OCW 42
Passenger Specials 110
LMIT 48
Locomotive Roster 1993 112
Santa Fe Signals 54
Dispositions 1993 138
Topeka Railroad Days 62
Roster At A Glance 144
Kansas Branchlines 70
The Santa Fe continues to evolve as a modern transportation system that is focused on providing the finest rail transportation available in 1993. The various Business Units, which are organizational entities within the management breakdown, each focus on a particular market niche in which the Santa Fe operates. The highlight of this annual is the coal situation in York Canyon, which may have essentially saved Raton Pass from the trimmer's shears.
Raton Pass goes back nearly to the very beginning of the Santa Fe. It was the first real mountain challenge for the railroad builders of the Santa Fe, and remains as a formidable operational challenge. Remote and manned helpers, steep grades, sharp curves, doubling the hill, and slow speeds are all part of Raton's vocabulary. Even though the trains are relatively few and far between, it is an awesome place to watch the age-old battle of man verses mountain.
Consider a trio of monstrous DASH 8-40CWs in Run 8 on the head-end of 56 loads of York Canyon coal, with three more DASH-8s shoving full blast on the rear. The
hour, even with a horsepower per ton ratio around 3.5. It is a show not easily forgotten, and one that continually draws the addicted back for another dose.
The entire area immediately south of Raton is laced with abandoned right-of- ways, in an area with a fascinating history of triumph and disaster. It is impossible to stand in the ruins of what was Dawson, New Mexico, and not wonder who lived there, what it was like, and where the inhabitants have gone. If only we could go back and watch the 4-4-0s struggling with tonnage on the many tracks that ran around the mining town, we would undoubtedly see a time and a place that is incredibly different from the railroading that we now know. Different, yet the same. Steel wheels on polished rail. Men against the elements. The machine against gravity.
The attempt has been made to try to capture some of the history of this region. It is a history rich in the episodes that are now fading into the distant past. The original Raton tunnel is gone, and its story will eventually fade until all that is left is a small scratch in the rocks on a mountainside at the Colorado-New Mexico state line.
Branchlines have been built and vanished, companies come and gone, and towns have arisen and died. From the cliffs at the mouth of York Canyon, one can overlook the remains of Dawson and clearly see numerous stone foundations, grim reminders of a town forgotten.
All that remains is a silence and the wind in your ears, whistling down from the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Southern Colorado. The two ribbons of steel haven't always been here, and when the silence is broken by the whine of dynamic brakes, the scene defies description.
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