Santa Fe Warbonnets in the 90s Galesburg area

Shot in the early to mid 90s in the Galesburg area, including a few FP45s in the Warbonnet scheme. Finally a train at WR Tower in Granite City, IL ( St. Louis area).

[@atsf47legit]

Good classic video. I'm starting to wish I was born in this era. I've been looking left and right at videos like this to find units involved in famous wrecks(e.g. 1989 Cajon Pass wreck), as seen, 144 was wrecked in 1994. I'm genuinely glad videos like this exist and I'm glad that this helps in my little search.

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you Aaron, glad you enjoyed it.

[@danielboone3770]

i love this 90's Santa Fe video. The Warbonnets are awesome going by here with those great horns.

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you Daniel!

[@colinmulder6806]

Fact of interest, the scenes from June 1991 were close to being filmed around the same time the folks from GREEN FROG PROD were in the area for filming of their production SANTA FE'S ODDESSEY VOLUME 3.

[@jefftoft5568]

That is cool, wish I would have run into them.

[@colinmulder6806]

@@jefftoft5568 You & many others.

[@tnrpvideo1414]

Very nice footage. Thanks for sharing!

[@jefftoft5568]

Your welcome, thanks for watching !

[@BNSFBishop]

Purely awesome!

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you Bishop!

[@nickbarman4145]

Great video jeff!

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you!

[@RDC2003]

I love how majority of the horn is this vid is RS3L

[@jefftoft5568]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.

[@RailfanLogan]

Love the horn at the start of the video!

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you Logan!

[@TNandTXRailfan]

Man I love all the B40-8’s, B40-8W’s and C40-8W’s!

[@jefftoft5568]

I do too! Santa Fe had some sharp looking units.

[@colinmulder6806]

You said it good sir.

[@colinmulder6806]

@@jefftoft5568 I couldn't agree more.

[@isaacsmith1874]

Southern Plains Railfan needs to see this.

[@jefftoft5568]

Thanks for watching.

[@What06]

I gotta love those Leslies on the AT&SF's GE widecabs.

[@jefftoft5568]

Yes, they are nice. Thanks for watching!

[@What06]

I had a hard time trying to know if they have both Leslie S3L and RS3L.

[@jefftoft5568]

@@What06 Sorry I'm not a person of knowing the different type horns.

[@What06]

@@jefftoft5568 It's fine i'm sure there might be a different between both S3L and RS3L but honestly they sound cool, sorry for asking that question BTW.

[@jefftoft5568]

@@What06 No problem, I'm just not a horn person when it comes to knowing what is what.

[@stephenheath8465]

Back in the days when Galesburg was a two Road Town ATSF and BN

[@jefftoft5568]

Yes Sir, thanks for watching.

[@Cnw8701]

Nice evolution of horsepower @12:20!

[@jefftoft5568]

Thanks, thanks for watching!

[@Cnw8701]

@@jefftoft5568 Yep! Love your content! Wish I was alive to see those trains. I was born in 1995.

[@jamesstallings2007]

Nice !!!

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you James!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Nice FB video Jeff.

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you Steven!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

@@jefftoft5568 You are welcome.

[@RailBet]

What is the name of the first locomotive leading of the video?

[@jefftoft5568]

B40-8, thanks for watching.

[@RailfanLogan]

DId you record this or did somebody else?

[@jefftoft5568]

All my videos are mine I recorded on VHS in the 90s. I don’t live to far from Galesburg and back then I made a lot of trips. Still do today, one of my favorite places to go.

[@RailfanLogan]

@@jefftoft5568 got it, thanks i was wondering that for a while. Btw I also live in east Galesburg down the street that is near the state st crossing.

[@jefftoft5568]

@@RailfanLogan Me and a friend of mine use to go to E. Galesburg quite often in the 90's. Might be heading Galesburg tomorrow since I haven't been in a while since my hip replacement a month ago.

[@RailfanLogan]

@@jefftoft5568 Sweet, those tracks are very busy. Last night I caught 1 intermodal and 1 autorack train

[@acepilot7476]

Man, I have never saw a war bonnet in real life

[@jefftoft5568]

There are a few still roaming around but stenciled BNSF.

[@acepilot7476]

@@jefftoft5568 ok

[@BuckeyeNationRailroader]

Ah the good old days

[@jefftoft5568]

Yes sir! I miss those days$

[@griffinstrains]

Didn’t Santa Fe form with Burlington northern to make BNSF

[@jefftoft5568]

Yes they did!

[@WesternSouthDakotaRailfan2006]

Sweet

[@jefftoft5568]

Thank you!

[@shammshaw7901]

Is SF 7411 and 5049 are still around?

[@jefftoft5568]

I have no idea, BNSF has been retiring units left and right.

[@joshfullbright7678]

Did a little searching 7411 is in TX in storage in 2022, was also in storage in Galesburg for awhile.

[@user-ku8jm4cx4l]

7:47 what horn is that

[@jefftoft5568]

I wish I could tell you but I’m not a horn expert.,

[@9wayne9]

Hey, I have an idea... Let's take the iconic BN paint scheme and combine it with the iconic SF paint scheme and create a hideous new orange paint scheme... 😑

[@jefftoft5568]

Someone beat you to it!

[@shammshaw7901]

0:12 BNSF 144 WAS INVOLVED FOR CAJON PASS 1994!!!!!! But he is repaired and repaint to BNSF

[@jefftoft5568]

I wish we would get to see those units around here, on occasion we may see 1 GP60. Thanks for watching.

[@paulcastillo9323]

I'm a former fan of sf be bnfs

[@jefftoft5568]

👍

[@BNProductions-vy7mf]

4:25 is my favorite horn

[@jefftoft5568]

It is a good one, thanks for watching!