Friends, In the seventh grade we took a unusual trip to Arizona for
Christmas from the frozen tundra of South Dakota. On the way back along
the panhandle of Texas (perhaps near Amarillo) we caught a ATSF
passenger train pulled by PA's--at the time I was in AF heaven. This
little boy had never seen anything like that--my hometown was served by
the same two Alco RSC-2's from when I could walk till I left for
college! All the freight F units were okay, but the PA's were something
else!
Bob Werre
Billy Click wrote:
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>My third favorite road, ATSF bought 28 A's and 16 B's. Santa Fe seemed to
>favor PAs on some routes and F units on others. Trains nos 1 and 2, the
>Chicago-Richmond, The San Francisco Chief, seemed to be primarily pulled by
>PAs in the early 60s as well as Texas trains, the Houston-Clovis California
>Special, and the Ft. Worth-San Angelo, The Angelo. In Steve Goen's book
>"Santa Fe in the Lone Star State" there are many photographs of ABA ALCOs,
>ABBBA F units, etc. One photo of #1 leaving Amarillo shows PAs in an AABBB
>lashup while another shows PAs AAAA leading #1. For those of you that have
>more locomotives than cars, another photo shows train #16
>Galveston-Houston-Chicago, The Texas Chief, on the Galveston causeway in an
>ABBB lashup with a single chair car behind it. (The rest of the train was
>picked up in Houston.)
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>Billy Click
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