WICHITA, Kan. (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 ...
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 ...
Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...
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 ...
Today's installment for "Throwback Thursday" takes us to the southeast corner of the Kansas State Fairgrounds. In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel ...
AVAILABLE THE JOB FAIR STARTS AT 10:00. AND HISTORIC AND COLORFUL LOCOMOTIVE IS NOWN O DISPLAY AT UNNIO STATION SANTA FE 5704 LOCOMOTIVE PAINTED RED WHITE AND BLUE FOR AMERICA’S BICENTENNIAL IN 197.