As the quickly setting sun disappears below the horizon, the last bit of sunlight can be seen reflecting off of Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Here it idles alongside the station platform in Raton, NM ... (more)
Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief rolls east along the outskirts of Raton, N.M., at a track speed of 79 MPH.
By the mid 1980’s, freight traffic on Santa Fe’s Raton line was sparse, but not virtually nonexistent as it is today. Some of those few trains could, however be heavy enough to require helpers... (more)
Santa Fe’s station in Raton, New Mexico sits quietly, awaiting the next arrival of the Southwest Chief. The barrage carts have disappeared sometime in the past thirty years, but the scene... (more)
Fresh out of a brief station stop in Raton, AMTK train 3, the southbound run of the Southwest Chief, glides across the prairies and grasslands of northern New Mexico, which line the Raton Subdivis... (more)
The eastbound Southwest Chief has just departed the Raton station and is heading for Raton Pass. It will take the train about an hour to cover the 20 miles between Raton and Trinidad, Colo.
Amtrak's Southwest Chief has finished its grueling climb over Raton Pass and is arriving at the town of Raton on its westward trip.
Amtraks southbound Southwest Chief winds through the fire charred forest of northern New Mexico shortly before making its final station stop before hitting the open plains, Raton, New Mexico.
A beautiful afternoon in Raton, NM finds an eastbound BNSF empty ballast train passing through town as it heads for La Junta, CO after working around the Springer, NM area on the passenger-only Ra... (more)
Passing the now quite yard and old BNSF crew base at Raton. Holding hope that one day this historic line gets it's freight back. Until then, the occasional work train will do just fine!
Screaming up grade at East Raton, 3 BNSF units shove as the Herzog train starts it's way up Raton Pass.
Raton Pass echoes to the whine of dynamic brakes as 313 and four companions feel their way down the west slope on train 23, the Grand Canyon, on July 27, 1967. The summertime consist of this still... (more)
The Grand Canyon A Roger Puta Photograph
