AT&SF Archives - The Trackside Photographer

Posted on March 2, 2023March 9, 2023 by admin

Street Running

Pueblo, Colorado

The Denver & New Orleans Railroad was incorporated in Colorado in 1881 to run between its namesake cities but it only got as far as Pueblo, Colorado. It was later bought by the Colorado & Southern and most of it was eventually abandoned in favor of running rights over the D&RGW and Santa Fe front range lines. Most was taken up over time, but on Erie Ave., just east of the Fountain Creek in Pueblo, a short section remained to serve a beer distributor and a brick plant.

Posted on January 18, 2018January 25, 2018 by admin

Surf Line Stations

One day in 1959, I was driving by Santa Fe’s main line tracks in Buena Park, California, and noticed a small wooden station there. I drove by there a couple of months later, and the station was gone. This started me thinking; “Hmm, these things seem to be vanishing just like steam locomotives did.”