The genesis of the Santa Fe Railway's first diesel-electric passenger locomotive, twin-unit boxcab No. 1, took place at a meeting in Chicago on Sept. 28, 1934. A railroad committee, selected by ...

(KWCH) - Wichita’s Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) is kicking off a fundraising effort to perform a full cosmetic restoration of historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No ...

A non-byline story accompanying the photo reported: A gleaming 600,000-pound four-unit Santa Fe Diesel passenger train locomotive “overshot the field” at Union Station yesterday and stopped ...

Wichita, Kans.-based Great Plains Transportation Museum is holding a fundraiser for a full cosmetic restoration of Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93, which was built by the ...

Current photograph of Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93. (Courtesy of Great Plains Transportation Museum) No. 93 pulled Santa Fe passenger trains between Chicago and California or ...

In fact, General Motors largely championed the diesel revolution that ... powered by the Winton 201A for the Santa Fe railroad on May 20, 1936. Other locomotive manufacturers, such as American ...

In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel locomotives. This left them with the problem of what to do with the old ones. Santa Fe #735 was born in 1900 in ...

(Courtesy GPTM) The historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93 is one of several trains currently at the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita’s Old Town. The engine ...