Santa Fe
The telephone has rung in the shed foreman’s office; it is the Yard Superintendant; “Our diesel has failed,” he said “have you got a substitute locomotive”? The foreman offers , a metre gauge veteran built in Switzerland in 1909 for Argentina’s French owned Santa Fe Railway. A spare crew jumps aboard the engine; they turn on the oil jets to raise steam to full working pressure. Clouds of black smoke envelope the depot and drift across the town. Soon the safety valves lift at 175 pounds per square inch and the seventy year old veteran is ready to take over the yard shunt – having towed the failed diesel back to the shed! Picture dated Tuesday 20th March 1979.
Size: 3720px × 2459px
Location: Santa Fe, North America,
Photo credit: © Colin Garratt / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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