Railroads & Locomotives History Father and son try to recreate a California trip from Santa Fe’s heyday

Father and son try to recreate a California trip from Santa Fe’s heyday

By John Ross Hart | February 18, 2021

A dad recreates a Santa Fe passenger trip
he took with his grandpa in 1962

A passenger train on a track on a rocky embankment by a body of water.

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