Just a few minutes after sunrise, an eastbound manifest is approaching West Defiance along the scenic Puerco River valley in far western New Mexico. The yard at Gallup is less than 14 miles ahead... (more)
I think I'm going to call that little fella "Spike". . . Spike awaits another pounding of a Z train at 70MPH on the BNSF Transcon.
4 high horsepowered units in 3 different paint schemes lead a set of eastbound coal empties towards Gallup, NM.
BNSF C44-9Ws 4107, 5000 and 5352 lead 49 loads of steel west into the setting sun.
A quartet of C44-9Ws and a GP60M lead the H BARGAL east on the Gallup Sub.
AMTK P42DCs 157 and 199 lead the eastbound Southwest Chief along the Gallup Subdivision, just east of the AZ/NM border.
AMTK 120 leads train #3, The Southwest Chief, westbound on the Gallup Sub, a few miles east of the NM/AZ border.
A ruined building frames an eastbound stack train.
AMT 200 Train #4 west of Defiance, NM
BNSF westbound intermodal train at Defiance, NM, on BNSF's Gallup Sub.
