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You are in the CarrTracks website Picture Gallery. Picture Gallery of Santa Fe Railway trains
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In 1882, the SP started building a line from Mojave to Needles to head off the advancing Atlantic & Pacific. This line was completed in 1883. The main objective was to keep competitors out of California. Through some horse trading the line to Needles became part of the Santa Fe and lines south of the Arizona Territory into Mexico became part of the Southern Pacific. Double tracking of the line between Needles and Barstow was completed in 1923. The single track line from Barstow to Mojave received CTC around 1959. The line from Needles up to Ibis received CTC in 1999. This was extended to Goffs in 2000 and west to Daggett in 2001. All of my photographs in this series are on disks 49 and 50. I have also added pictures taken by Jack Delano in 1943. For those modeling the Santa Fe in the late 60s, the library contains a series of pages with detailed freight train consists. The trains featured on those pages were observed at Winslow and Barstow. Needles |
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