Passenger stations and agencies were once a common aspect of lineside detail. The 1908-built AT&SF depot in Mountainair is on the National Register of Historic Places and fortunately remains as ev... (more)

Late evening sun hits this westbound intermodal.

BNSF 5185 leaving Abo Canyon on its way east toward Mountainair.

Having made the grade up from Belen the 8300 is heading east on the Clovis sub.

A 4 pack of GE's lug a colorful stack train up the grade in nice late afternoon light a couple miles west of Mountainair, NM on the Clovis Sub.

A westbound manifest begins its decent down the grade toward Belen as they ease past the old station at Mountainair, NM.

4 GE's cruise past the desert landscape and up the grade toward the summit at Mountainair late in the afternoon.

The sun begins to set and the days winds begin to calm as a pair of DPU's help ease a westbound grain train down the hill approaching Abo, NM on BNSF's Clovis Sub.

4 engines have 34 trailers well under control as they speed west between Mountainair and Abo, NM.

In the late afternoon sun we catch a well timed meet with a westbound grain train and an eastbound stack train slowly climbing the grade toward Mountainair.

The entire landscape is aglow just a few minutes before sunset as a westbound stack train drops drowgrade between Mountainair and Abo, New Mexico on the BNSF Clovis Sub.

A pair of GE's tote a train of empties up the grade a couple miles from Mountainair on a windy afternoon on the Clovis Sub.

2 Heritage 1's working west as DPU's, dropping down grade from the Abo summit toward Belen.

It's been a long climb up from Belen and the Rio Grande river crossing, but three GP60Ms and a GP35 will soon be able to breathe easier, reaching the top of the grade at Mountainair.