Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe F7A #347C & F3B #347B

Photo by Cliff West

Pictured here at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California are Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe F7A #347C with F3B #347B coupled behind it. These passenger diesels are F-units built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors and are painted in the Santa Fe's famous Warbonnet paint scheme.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #347C is an F7A that was built in September 1949 as #39C. It was renumbered to #306C in April or May of 1971 and was leased to Amtrak in June 1971. By August 1973 it had returned to ATSF and been renumbered to #347C.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #347B is an F3B that was built in January 1949 as #35A. It was renumbered to #307B in April or May of 1971 and was leased to Amtrak in June 1971. In August 1973 it returned to ATSF and was renumbered to #347B.

These two locomotives were retired in July 1975 and were donated to the California State Railroad Museum in March 1986.