Season’s Greetings. . .

. . . from the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Santa Fe System Board of Adjustment. Although there is a jet airliner on the top of the Christmas tree, this booklet is filled exclusively with photos of (and courtesy of) the Santa Fe Railway. The only indication of a date is a statement that the Santa Fe “celebrated its centennial in 1968.”

Click image to download a 49-MB PDF of this Christmas booklet.

The booklet opens with a color photo of a Santa Fe freight train crossing a bridge led by what appear to be General Motors SD-40s. The remaining 29 photos are in black and white and start with a dozen photos of steam locomotives dating back to 1883, followed by more recent photos.

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The booklet contains just two passenger photos. The first shows the observation cars of seven sections of the California Limited, with the platforms loaded with passengers, ready to depart Los Angeles, presumably sometime in the 1920s. The second shows “new 6,000 horsepower ALCO diesel-electric engine and ten lightweight cars in Cajon Pass.” Since the Alco PAs in the photo were new in 1947, the caption must have been taken straight from the back of the publicity photo rather than written by someone in the union.

Unfortunately, some of the photos are poorly cropped, with the fronts and backs of some of the steam locomotives cut off. The captions also contain a few embarrassing typos, such as calling a Hudson locomotive a “type 4-6” instead of 4-6-4. Otherwise, this is a nice booklet, with each photo printed on heavy cardboard, making for a weighty Christmas card.


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