Super Fleet warbonnet Santa Fe locomotives are everywhere at the railroad’s servicing facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on June 2, 1996. General Electric B40-8W No. 521 shares track space with EMD GP60M Nos. 145 and 125. Even though the Santa Fe and Burlington Northern were merged the year before with the formation of a holding company on September 22, 1995, the operating railroads formally merged into the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway on December 31, 1996, and scenes like this would soon become a rarity.
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