The most beautiful engines ever built. It's great to see them in all their beautiful glory. Hats off to the men that helped bring these beauties back to life!!!!

Wow, this takes me back. My grandad was Superintendent of Special Service (Chief Detective) for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe -- headquartered in this very same Galveston depot -- for many years until retiring in 1965. As a kid I made many a trip with him behind the old F units. A time long gone now, when people actually groomed themselves and dressed neatly to travel!

Out of all the paint schemes, the Warbonnet was the most famous. Ask Lionel.

The streamliners were the best looking of all locomotives ever built

That is the best looking locomotive ever designed. The Warbonnet paint job is the best too.

Pretty cool, I like the warbonnet paint scheme 😊😊

Regarding the restoration they had as to what updates were done depends on who is funding the rebuild and the what the budget is. I forget who owns them but I was shown through a rebuilt set of F-7A units that looked like F-7A's on the outside but were totally modern on the inside. V-16 645E series engines instead of the 567C engines, replaced the DC main generator with an alternator as when they were done and kicked them out of the shop you had 2 F-7A car body's with GP-38-2 innards inside making them far easier to maintain and operate and raising the horsepower to 2000 each. The power plant upgrade also eliminated the need for transition on the locomotive's thus providing a smoother ride and when rebuilding the trucks upgraded them to so the trucks got GP38-2 traction motors. If your going to rebuild 1950's era locomotive's for the company office train why not do it right? From the outside no one would know and you wouldn't have electricians scratching their heads asking another electrician, you familiar with these?

I love how the paint lines match up so nicely with the two engines back to back.

Santa Fe Warbonnets , one of the most iconic loco's of all time, and my all time favorite. I have some on my HO layout. I grew up in a RR town when steam was being phased.

I'm just happy to see these beautiful machines being restored and being shown moving around.

I asked for the War Bonnet train set every Christmas when I was a kid, never got one, I absolutely loved that train and that's coming from a GNRY, Omaha orange and Pullman green fan!!

Thanks for sharing the vid... I grew up with both ATSF F's and the Espee F's, so I enjoy these old Southern Pacific units in Santa Fe paint all the same. Yep, a lot of different details between the two railroad's units (horns, pilots/plows, tanks, skirting over the tanks, lighting arrangements) but these still look nice. Ditch lights look weird, of course, but a required evil these days.

I wish one of these units had participated in Streamliners At Spencer a year later. The classic Warbonnet scheme was conspicuous by its absence.

I love me some F units! By far my favorite locomotives to ever be produced!

Beautiful..Those units pulled my family on the California Zephyr in the 60’s. A great adventure awaited us as we pulled out of Chicago. Back then I think the terminus was Oakland not Emeryville.

To all you guys complaining about the paint. Let me pass along what an old German engineer told me once. "Bad beer is better than no beer at all." Discuss

These are gorgeous units but it's too bad about those anachronistic ditch lights. I think historical equipment should be exempt from that regulation.

I always like the silver running gear of the SF, UP, and the D&H...to name a few

I always thought that Santa Fe Diesel the most beautiful locomotive ever.

Moving at 5 mph, what a shame. These locomotives used to fly down the tracks over 100 mph from city to city I remember hearing the horn a mile away and the gates would go down and 15 seconds later the train would blast by so fast it was a blurr The passengers having a meal or drinks or taking in the sights as the train flew through towns

Amtrak Diesel And Santa Fe Diesel looks so great together

Glad to see them up and running. Terrific job Galveston!

How can a huge machine be so beautiful.

I prefer the PA's and E8/E9's, but the F3 and F7 were beautiful. Many is the time I rode the El Capitan between Los Angeles and Amarillo, La Junta and Chicago.

Beautiful majestic engines. 🇺🇸👍

Amazing how many of the F-Units are still around... The pneumatics on the older ones sounded like a shot gun when they went off!!! "Pop!!!, Pop!!!", then the chug, lug, lug of the pumps...

Nice Warbonnets on those covered wagons!

On the thumbnail it looked so clean I though it was a model.

I grew up with the Santa Fa. I miss it.

A few years ago I was stopped at the railroad tracks waiting for a Union Pacific freight train to pass but to my surprise the two lead locomotives was the Union Pacific F units

Love that unmistakable sound of the Leslie S5

WOW! I remember riding the Texas Chief to Oklahoma City as a child.

Glory days warbonnet paint scheme looks great. I think it looked even better on the ALCO PA/PB units with that long hood. If you Google "ALCO PA locomotives", theres a great shot, "Alco Pa-1 51 Santa Fe Chief Diesel Locomotive Chicago 1946." Always got a thrill hearing the superchargers whine as they passed my grandma's house on the way to San Diego. Glad to see these historical engines restored.

Nice video galivston Texas old school locomotives Amtrak also awesome keep it up bless you

I see when Amtrak is short of power they will lease units from anywhere.

I'd say almost everything is restored...With the newer GE Genesis and its computerization as the 3rd loco, I'm wondering if the F units have more up-to-date controls and control interfaces, especially with Amtrak featuring nostalgic flairs on some of its cross-country journeys now...Also looks like there's some fine old comfort and first class service in some of those cars!

I love to that engine make stop in San Bernardino CA . Now that would make history . An Icon .

Yay! This museum is amazing it's a very fun place to take the kids 💯

Those FD40s look so awesome with that war bonnet paint scheme! There should be a B unit between those two A units!

If I remember right, these were restored in Greenville, SC.

They look beautiful

Those old EMD 2 strokes last forever

Beautiful machine.

Now if only they could get a Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 to run again... I've been to see the No. 4935 GG1 "Blackjack" in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. She looks beautiful, but it's sad seeing her cooped up in the museum when she could be riding the rails again...

The RR museum in Galveston is well worth the visit. It's and the end of the Strand.

A part of RR history, brought back to life! thanks to all those who made it possiable! now, are they going to use it on excursions?Dinner trains? Just wondering, who pays for the restoration? Santa Fe? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, The silver bullet of the Burlington Zepher looks great, so do many othe paint scemes. The War bonnet is super! and most popular!

When they do a restoration do they install new diesel engines and generators, and new electronic or to they restore and rebuild what is there? Thank you in advance.

Santa Fe In are hearts forever

Beautiful design. Made Lionel rich.

the fantastic machines.

I had a model freight train with a santa fe warbonnet locomotive .it almost looks the same as the one in this video.the only difference is mine only had one headlight ,and on both sides of the locomotive had round sie vents,or windows where the power plant of the locomotive would be located at

I wanted a set of model F units in Santa Fe warbonnet SO BAD when I was a kid, but never got them.

Looks like amtrak is replaying their rainbow era as an excursion.

Former SP F units. They left the modified snow plows on along with non standard horns and unfortunately have the ditch lights on them as well as the RPCX initials. Can't do much about the initials other than make them smaller.

Just how gorgeous can you get?

It's a beautiful restoration...but those horns! No vintage pair exists anywhere in the US?

Now they need a B unit betwixt em.

Saw them when they went to Brenham in November 2016. Took our Xmas card Pic with them. Just the way God and Lionel wanted it!!😮😅

what a lovely restoration

The ditch lights are required by law

anyone know the horns used on these? Kind of a very low pitched horn, like a fog horn. It can be heard in the theme opening of the old "Fugitive" TV series.

These remind me of an N Scale Mini-trix F9 painted up to look like Santa Fe F7's. They are old SP F Units now painted into the Santa Fe Warbonnet. Not real crazy about them. RickH.

nice catch!

Sharp units!!!!

Locomotive looks like wcm1,5 London locomotive works

0:55 Moron "parents"... Let the kids running aside the track, meanwhile the loco coming! Congrat!

They must have had them hidden, I just seen them two days ago.

Santa Fe original!!

I think they ruined the F units when they went ahead and mounted ditch lights on the front of them these engines never had ditch lights on them and they never should even ask the railroads have a ball that says every engine should be equipped with Ditch lights nowadays I think that should be right except for the F unit should stay the way they were years ago they look so much better that way gives it more classic look I think it's so stupid when they put the ditch lights on there that is ruined the look of the engines they were never made to have ditch lights than ever had its lights on back then and they shouldn't have ditch lights on now I think somebody should say something about that the railroad practical it is ruined the classic looking engine my car won't up some lights on the bottom of it weren't there originally who's with me

Carnival Cruiseship in town

That's 1 killer rs5t.

Nice sounding Leslie horn.

Great video! What is Amtrak going to do with these engines?

Did they upgrade the horns? Most traditional F units have horns that sound like a single note tuba.

Great video!

Are the two blue/cream cars ex American Orient Express? (Cars now have Creative Charters on their sides). Does anyone know what happened to the cars of the AOE that once were parked in California?

Great restoration except for horn placement.

A Windows Movie Maker video in 2013? Impossible.

1:1 models of Santa Fe F's . playing trains.

Too bad they have mostly just sat there since then

Why in the heck is a Northeast Regional car in Texas, it’s supposed to be on the Northeast Corridor

What's the story behind this? Are the F-7s going to see revenue service or any kind? Or will they be used for excursion only? Surely, they're not just for museum display, not after being restored to running condition(?). Who knows, please?

Are these f units originally Santa Fe locomotives

Both need the plows changed out, remove the horrid horns and replace, get rid of those horrid ditch lights and the HEP exhaust systems on the roof. Otherwise, not too bad.

That's something. What's the P42 and Amfleets doing in the consist?

Looooooove your video.

Beautiful

My daddy rode (and liked) trips on the El Capitan.

WOW great video.

Tonish glosih 2good luck

Get that p42 outa here and give her a B unit and some SF passenger cars

They should have flipped the ditch lights down. They are in the wrong place to impress me. Again RickH.

sounds so mean as it throttles up 4:32

BAMPER horn ! 🤗

I hate ditch lights on F units. They look awful.

What horn is this?

Now they sit in Galveston and do nothing...sad, sad sad.

Striking locomotives. They aren't powered here? Santa Fe was a great passenger carrier.

Why are they called 'f' Units???

please excuse my spelling erroron my previous comment .I ment to say side vents.[oops my bad}