First run of Santa Fe’s Super C

First run of Santa Fe’s Super C

By Angela Cotey | March 16, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Santa Fe FP45’s 100 and 102 race west of Gallup, N.Mex., with the inaugural run of the road’s premium piggyback train the Super C on January 18, 1968. Road Foreman of Engines Jack Elwood is at the throttle; he wrote about the trip in Classic Trains‘ Special Edition No. 7, Fast Trains. ATSF photo
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