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Owner: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Model:FM H-12-44TSBuilt As:ATSF 542 (H-12-44TS)
Serial Number:12L1022Order No:
Frame Number:Built:5/1956
Notes:05/1956, retired May 7, 1974
Other locos with this serial:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
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The Super Chief/El Capitan, Chicago, 1971
Title:  The Super Chief/El Capitan, Chicago, 1971
Description:  It is March, 1971. Santa Fe Fairbanks Morse H-1244T number 542, one of three sisters built by the Beloit-based locomotive manufacturer in 1956 to move passenger equipment in Santa Fes Chicago yards, backs the combined Super Chief/El Capitan streamliner into Chicago Union Station. 542 wears Santa Fes "Billboard" yellow and blue paint scheme used for freight locomotives. The F7 A-B-B-A units behind wear Santa Fes classic "Warbonnet" paint scheme used on passenger locomotives. 542 was scrapped in 1974 but sister 543 survives at the Illinois Railroad Museum.
Photo Date:  3/15/1971  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 8:12:16 PM
Location:  Chicago Union Station, IL
Author:  Stephen Carl Baldwin
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS) ATSF 311(F7A)
Views:  1279   Comments: 2
AT&SF H12-44TSs #542 + #543
Title:  AT&SF H12-44TSs #542 + #543
Description:  AT&SF H12-44TSs #542 + #543, both built 5//56, leased to Amtrak, retired 5/7/74, #542 scrapped; #543 was stored in Albuquerque, then to California State Railroad Museum in 1988, to Illinois Railway Museum in 20008, were in the AT&SF coach yard and viewed from the Amtrak Super Chief/El Capitan
Photo Date:  9/3/1971  Upload Date: 6/10/2020 3:10:09 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS) ATSF 543(H-12-44TS)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
AT&SF H12-44TS #542 working for Amtrak at Union Station
Title:  AT&SF H12-44TS #542 working for Amtrak at Union Station
Description:  AT&SF H12-44TS #542, built 5//56, retired 5/7/74, had just shoved an Amtrak train into Union Station
Photo Date:  4/1/1972  Upload Date: 7/2/2020 4:27:48 PM
Location:  Chicago Union Station, IL
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
AT&SF 542 in Santa Fe Coach Yards in 1972
Title:  AT&SF 542 in Santa Fe Coach Yards in 1972
Description:  The steam generator for winter passenger car switching is most likely under the short hood. See shots of H-12-44 w/o the TS.
Photo Date:  9/9/1972  Upload Date: 10/25/2006 12:26:37 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  2161   Comments: 2
ATSF 542
Title:  ATSF 542
Description:  Rare (One of three) FM H12-44TS
Photo Date:  6/15/1974  Upload Date: 10/18/2011 9:41:30 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  649   Comments: 4
ATSF 542
Title:  ATSF 542
Description:  Santa Fe H-12-44TS #542, one of only three built, along with two "conventional" H-12-44s, sits in the former Monon yard at Hammond, stacks capped, fate uncertain. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/24/2009 2:33:42 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  916   Comments: 0
ATSF FM H-12-44TS #542 (one of only three built)
Title:  ATSF FM H-12-44TS #542 (one of only three built)
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Industrial Maintenance Services. This is a H-12-44TS, only one of three built. Was assigned to Dearborn Station, Chicago
Photo Date:  1/3/1975  Upload Date: 3/5/2006 9:01:41 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  1056   Comments: 0
ATSF 542
Title:  ATSF 542
Description:  ATSF 542 at scrapper
Photo Date:  3/1/1975  Upload Date: 4/23/2007 12:27:52 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  1815   Comments: 0
ERIE 853 & 850 are new here today.
Title:  ERIE 853 & 850 are new here today.
Description:  The Santa Fe is also a newbie. Wonder what steamer was over to the left of the REA cars?
Photo Date:  7/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 1:28:19 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Sturges & Folsom
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ERIE 853(PA1) ERIE 850(PA1) ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  1783   Comments: 8
AT&SF #542
Title:  AT&SF #542
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/8/2014  Upload Date: 10/24/2019 5:37:07 AM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 542(H-12-44TS)
Views:  163   Comments: 0


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