Santa Fe: maintaining a "racetrack." (engineering-maintenance operations) From: Railway Age | Date: March 1, 1990| Author: Welty, Gus | COPYRIGHT 1990 Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Santa Fe's Engineering Department doesn't take up a lot of space in Santa Fe Center, the railway's headquarters in downtown Chicago. There's Herb Webb, assistant vice president and chief engineer, and Jim Miller, assistant chief engineer-administration, and an administrative assistant, Natalie Show. Engineering functions and people are now at Topeka, Kan., and maintenance functions and people are at Albuquerque, N.M., as a result of a 1989 restructuring that turned out to be an exc...