The Air Up There..

Hey, I've gone aloft as I catch The Southwest Chief racing below the Sandia Mountains and into Albuquerque

This view has been captured by a few over the years. I was fortunate to get 3 trains here to close out a great day of photography around Abo Canyon.

Santa Fe power mixed with an LMX leaser exits Abo Canyon with a westbound train headed for Belen, NM. A couple years into BNSF, it was nice to still be able to see "pure" Santa Fe locos,... (more)

The Plains of New Mexico - In addition to the many fantastic topographical features that New Mexico has to offer, there is also a lot of flat ground and rolling hills between Wagon Mound an... (more)

Santa Fe 841 leads BN 8027, LRCX 8112, and BN 7107 east over the Valmora bridge as it heads for Raton, New Mexico.

BNSF 9805 leads a coal train over a small bridge near Folsom, New Mexico.

Sometimes you just get lucky. BNSF 2470, still in ATSF blue/yellow paint, leads a mixed bag of paint schemes, with NS, FURX, BN, and new BNSF paint schemes following the lead unit. Bridge #2 at ... (more)

BNSF 4339 leads an eastbound doublestack train across the 1st bridge in Abo Canyon. E Sais, NM, Apr 1, 2005.

A BNSF intermodal train makes it way up the famous Abo Canyon.

The DPU Power of this BNSF Eastbound Doublestack Train is seen here passing through Estancia, NM.

The last train of the day between Santa Fe and Albuquerque heads along the old Santa Fe right-of-way after dark.

The Rio Puerco River was running muddy as Santa Fe Train 1, San Francisco Chief, crossed it westbound on Aug. 8, 1970, after leaving Albuquerque, about 34 miles back.

Head-end business is the lubrication that keep the wheels turning on Santa Fe’s train 23, the Grand Canyon, crossing the Cimarron River at the southern edge of Springer, New Mexico, on July 27, 19... (more)

Union Pacific 844 crosses the Pecos River in 2011 for the Arizona Centennial Train (though the actual anniversary was not to occur until 2012). For the diesel fans, note the UP 1996, the South... (more)

Here we see Amtrak's Southwest Chief #4 slowly making its way through Apache Canyon on a brutally cold and snowy winter afternoon. Decorated in the phase IV paint scheme, this train features Herit... (more)