American Outline N Scale Model Railroads

One particular visitor to my model and one who has helped a great deal in it's creation is my friend Phil, he enjoys trying to take both the style and format of photograph that people of the 1930's to 1950's may have taken these are by and large all taken by him and edited by me.

In the distance the speeding streamliner sounds off  

As the ground begins to shake the whistle becomes more insistent!

The earth beneath the photographer's feet is trembling, the air is filled with the roar of the oncoming express, there is only one thing to do indeed!

These few photographs were taken by an unknown visitor to San Miguel and although undated they can be deduced to be in about the mid 1950's as Santa Fe were still running a local service on the SMR&JCR  at that time linking it to their Super-Chief services. The advent of the ES&LRR's tourist trains such as The Silver Shadow put paid to this local service in 1955.

The shot above shows the train approaching San Miguel and crossing over the top of the Native reservation.   Considering the noise and vibration it must have made an very unpleasant daily experience!

The train is clearly made up by an open Pullman coach car and a baggage car

This shot would appear  to be taken from the bluff above the Depot.

We include this shot as a warning to Amateur Photographers who feel  they wish to take a "suicide shot" of an oncoming train.~ DON'T !

An Oncoming Horn Blasting and Earth Trembling DL109 locomotive will cause so much camera shake as to make the shot a waste of time ...If you survive the experience!

 If you are interested the DL9 Alco Locomotives  seen here were the fourth set of Diesel Electric units purchased by Santa Fe for The Super-Chief  service, and the last with the distinctive Art Deco Shovel-Nose front  which they shared with the General Motors E6 Locomotives but they were quickly superseded by the Alco PA1's which Alco released just 18 months later.  By the Mid 50's they were downgraded to local and fast freight services.