Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief splits the semaphore signals of East Colmor as it races westward towards Las Vegas, NM.

A rainy day look back through time... Amtrak's Chicago bound Southwest Chief No. 4 barrels through Colmor, passing a pair of westbound-facing Santa Fe semaphores under ugly skies. To... (more)

Amtrak 4 rushes through the prairies of New Mexico on its way towards Raton on a stormy afternoon. The famous “Wagon Mound” can be seen in the distance.

A Blast to the Past - The 'Pepsi Can' heritage paint, which pays tribute to the early paint schemes found on Amtrak's fleet of Dash-8 locomotives, lives on shielding a P42 locomotive as Amt... (more)

AMTK 183 leads the eastbound Southwest Chief passed ESS Colmor

A new BNSF ES44C4 #3274 leads a tie train by east end Colmor. They'd go as far as Springer and tie down for the day.

Short timers. The Ancient AT&SF intermediate semaphores in Colmor, NM greet the Amtrak Southwest Chief on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 2, 2020 with AMTK 5 (P42DC) leading. BNSF Railway, A... (more)

Amtrak 3 highballs the semaphores in Colmor, NM at MP 706.2 on the Raton Subdivision.

A Dreamscape View... Next-door to a Nightmare..

The Milky Way rises in the southern sky on the Great Plains of New Mexico. It's a little after Three AM, and we see the classic ... (more)

The moon illuminates the spectacle on the intermediate signal at milepost 712 on the Raton subdivision on this cold January evening.

Amtrak engine #4 leads train #3, the westbound "Southwest Chief" by the semaphores at the 717 milepost near Colmor, NM.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief splits its first pair of semaphores. It'll pass at least a dozen more on its westward journey.

Amtrak #4 'The Southwest Chief' hustles past the blades at Colmor on a stormy afternoon in the desert.

Silent Sentinels- Standing tall over the former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe main line, two aged semaphore signals control the movements of but two trains per day. With the reorganization of... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train No. 3 charges through the interlocking at WSS Colmor at track speed on BNSF's former Santa Fe Raton Subdivision.