Roundhouse: (Satellite, you can still see remnants of the foundation and the turntable is extant.)
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| Tim Starr posted The Santa Fe's Albuquerque boiler shop (posted earlier) can be seen to the left of the giant machine and erecting shop. This aerial photo was taken in 1945 and is part of the Kansas Memory collection (Kansas Historical Society). |
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| Rick Shilling posted 2022 Aerial Photo of ATSF Railroad facilities at Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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| John Abbott posted Bob Gaston "Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lifting an engine to be carried to another part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops for wheeling" Bob Gaston From the Library of Congress. |
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| David Daruszka commented on the above posting Most railroad "backshops" that did heavy overhauling were equipped with big overhead cranes capable of lifting a locomotive off of its drivers, or moving a complete locomotive. Same Santa Fe Albuquerque shop from a different angle showing the overhead crane. |
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| Bob Garcia posted Albuquerque Railroad Roundhouse. Inside railway roundhouse. Photo: Bob Garcia 1972. Korey Gregory shared Been a few photos of the Albuquerque AT&SF roundhouse & shops in this group, but haven’t seen this one yet.. Thanks to Bob Garcia
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| John Schwers posted In the late 40’s or early 50’s our Bandelier grade school class went on field trip to the Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse. The roundhouse was later used to store Santa Fe’s historic locomotives. Mark Lawrence shared |
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| Anthony Gomez commented on John's post We have a museum at the Rail yard, this is still around in the yard. |
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| Hank-William Buelow commented on John's post was there until it came down in 1987 |
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| John Schwers commented on his post |
It is nice that the backshop got repuposed as a musuem.
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| Joseph Monda, Sep 2024 |
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| Threshold Google, Dec 2019 |
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| WheelsMuseum This web page has a gallery of historic photos of the backshop. |
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| Barry Sell posted Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. [forging] |
15 images in the group Fascinating Railroad Structures & Engineering (It is a shazme that Facebook changed their rules in favor of spammers and so many groups got switched from Public to Private.)
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| Tim Starr posted Although the Santa Fe's Albuquerque (NM) boiler shop had been closed by the time this photo was taken in 2005, it gives an idea of the huge interior and its 150-ton Morgan bridge crane. (Jet Lowe; Library of Congress) |
Mike Legeros posted 12 photos with the comment: "Road trip report. From last week, drone views of the historic Rail Yards in Albuquerque, NM."
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John Taranto posted two photos with the comment: "Turntable at the Santa Fe rail yards in Albuquerque. To be restored for use by AT&SF 2926."
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| Screenshot Ken Heitzenrater shared Daniel Thurston: This looks like the table in Logansport In. Clayton Huber: Albuquerque New Mexico? |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Daniel's comment It is not Logansport. The doors and windows don't match. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Clayton's comment It is not Alburquerque either. https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0743352,-106.64984,133a,35y,39.08t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |
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| 1 of 12 photos posted by Scott Tidwell Pictures of the Albuquerque rail yards and the old Santa Fe Freight building that I took when I lived in Albuquerque. |
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The Amtrak sign was just recently added above the greyhound dog sign.
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| Classic Streamlines posted Santa Fe streamliner "Super Chief" being serviced at the Albuquerque, NM depot. Santa Fe's pro crew will have the diesels serviced in less than 10 minutes. It's 1943, so many of the Pullman green heavyweight cars you see will be filled with service members heading to either coast. Ken Smith: Jack DeLano photograph John Scott: Nice blackout cover over the headlight, something required close to any coastline in that day! Chris Culp: John Scott Not only that...something that is completely ignored and missed by so many parrot heads "experts"...the ROOFS OF THE CARS ARE PAINTED BLACK. It's always "steam engine soot"...blah blah blah......not. There was a wartime requirement that ALL cars and locomotives have their roofs blackened. Look closely at the roof of the E-6...note the roof has been painted black right up to where the roof begins to curve down to the windshields. AFTER the war, after removing the paint from a very few cars, the Santa Fe deemed it too expensive to continueand painted the Budd cars'roofs aluminum gray....most remained that way right til the end. Take a look at the prewar 3072 class+ in service on the San Diegans through the 60's into the 70's on NJT. Same thing with diners and dorm lounges. Most buss cars built prewar have/had this treatment. If they DID NOT; it's likely because they were in Midwest service and didn't fall under the requirements. The COSF and COLA trains ALSO received black roofs. Michael Watson: They still did that during the 1960s. Washed serviced and resupplied the train. Passengers were welcome to get off for a few minutes and stretch thier legs. Local Natives sold crafts. Several vendors were there awaiting the passengers taking a break. Get a current newspaper. Stop lasted about a half hour. Taken the same route with Antrak. Still the longest stop on the route and some servicing was done. Not so many vendors. About a 20 minute stop. It was approximately the halfway point of the journey why the servicing and a longer station stop, break for passengers was held there. Keith James: It looks like they're just using a gravity feed to fuel the power units. Peter Eick: Keith James I never really thought about that. I wonder why they did not have a small pump to speed up the flow rate. |
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| David P. Reaves III commented on the above post I'm sure there must be a better resolution copy of this somewhere. Iconic! |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on David's comment Thanks to Ken Smith's comment, this photo is the fifth in this search result: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=jack%20delano%20albuquerque%20super%20chief. I included a cropped version of the jpg file. The tiff file has a resolution of 6182x7971 and is 140mb. The tiff file for the first B&W photo is 12952x9879 and 122mb. |
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| David P. Reaves IIII commented on the above post, cropped Brightened, straightened, vibrance added. It's very clear that this was an overcast day, so you can't get really bright colors out of it. Reduced to 50% of original TIFF size |
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