Cotton Belt, SSW 9673 E/B mixed freight waits in the siding at Vaughn, NM on January 13, 1995 for a Southern Pacific W/B Intermodal. The SSW 9673 also had SSW 9682, SP 8566 and 7333 in this consis... (more)

Southern Pacific 184 waiting in the siding at East Vaughn, NM on the SP on December 16, 1995, with SP 343 with a mixed freight. This I believe is the first SP freight I saw with AC44CW's as the po... (more)

Union Pacific 7346 picks up speed as it leads a doublestack south along State Route 54 in eastern New Mexico.

Hustling eastward across the barren plains of eastern New Mexico, and disturbing a raven as it does, is BNSF Railway train H-BARTUL9-18A, which originated in Barstow, California, and is headed to ... (more)

6666 & 6560 pass Vaughn whilst hauling an eastbound tank train

6666 & 6560 approach Vaughn whilst hauling an eastbound tank train

VAUGHN NM Sept 3 1983 — Santa Fe C30-7 8165 passes a signal with a TOFC train. GE built the unit (s/n 44079) in December 1982 with black on white number boards, a roof-mounted air conditioning u... (more)

VAUGHN NM Sept 25 1988 — Santa Fe SD40-2 5149 and SD45u 5346 pull a TOFC train past the station on the way east to Clovis NM. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 796386-9) in October 1980 in blue body w... (more)

Early morning finds the 4826 East sailing across the plains and blowing past the old division point of Vaughn, NM. The subdivision was largely single track with passing sidings yet and you better ... (more)

The Grand Canyon Limited, ATSF 2nd 23, is led by ATSF 4-8-4 2912 west of Vaughn New Mexico on September 21st 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

VAUGHN NM Sept 25 1988 — Santa Fe SD40-2 5069 leads a mostly TOFC train eastbound. EMD built the unit in May 1979. It was transferred to BNSF on Sept 22 1995, re-numbered and re-lettered 6728, a... (more)

An A-B-B-A FT set leads ATSF train 23, the Grand Canyon Limited, west of Vaughn New Mexico, in 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Just west of Vaughn, NS 4216 west pass the control point at E. Tejon.

The 3187 East comes off the single track where the Transcon crosses the Golden State Route in Vaughn, NM - a segment that has since been double tracked. Unit 5512, second out, is a cabless SD45-2 ... (more)

BNSF 6622 easts meets two westbound trains, BNSF 3862 and BNSF 4014 just west of the new bridge being constructed at Vaughn, New Mexico.