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The cover of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's publication "Along Your Way". This publication was a promotional item distributed to passengers riding Santa Fe passenger trains; it includes photos of scenes along the railroad's route as well as detailed description of points of interest at the railroad's major stations.

The cover shows an EMD E1 locomotive, Santa Fe number 2, used on the Super Chief passenger train. It is likely that the photo is the Super Chief as it appeared in 1945, the publication date.

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This photo is one of a series of originally black-&-white exposures taken of No. 2 for the Santa Fe Railway outside of Chicago on June 13, 1937, when these locomotive units were brand new and about to enter service on the 15th pulling the stainless-steel Super Chief consist between Chicago and Los Angeles. This particular pose seems to be the one of the set most frequently encountered, and may be seen on page 7 of Johnston's and Welsh's The Art of the Streamliner (New York, Metrobooks, 2001). However, the image as printed in the book is the reverse of that on the cover of the brochure. Comparing it with the other images in the series, one assumes that this black-&-white version is the original orientation of the image, and that the photo as printed on "Along Your Way" involved airbrushing and retouching/reversing the "Santa Fe" lettering on the nose of the unit after the original image was reversed. Unretouched in the image reversal is the direction in which the cab's windshield wipers point: in The Art of the Streamliner, they point in the direction opposite that as seen on "Along Your Way." Likewise, the engineer is shown on the proper side of the cab in The Art of the Streamliner. It is highly unlikely that he would have allowed himself to have been seen on the opposite (the fireman's) side of the cab in such an important photo of the railway's newest and flashiest locomotive, or that he would have allowed a mere fireman to be seen rather than himself in any such photo.

Then too, there was the matter of colorizing the black-&-white original for the brochure, as retouching goes.

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