BNSF 3897, 7486, &7920 lead westbound stacks about to duck under Hwy 60 & start the descent into Abo canyon.

Four GEs lug an eastbound manifest upgrade out of Abo canyon.

BNSF 7003, 7935, 3883, 7393, & 3822 lead an eastbound stack train out of Abo canyon.

BNSF 4994, 5535, & 6853 lead westbound stacks about to duck under Hwy 60 & start the descent into Abo canyon.

Bnsf 7346 grinds up the grade as they leave Abo in the rearview.

Bnsf 4629 drag's a stack train east through Abo Canyon.

An eastbound intermodal claws its way up through Abo Canyon just before sunrise. Although I didn't see many eastbound trains into the morning sun, the westbounds were sure running like streetcars.

ABO NM July 6 1986 — Santa Fe C30-7 8146 leads a westbound mixed freight on approach to the New Mexico State Highway 55 overpass. GE built the 8146 (s/n 43573) in June 1981 as an RCE Locotrol II... (more)

Struggling up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley at Belen to Mountainair, BNSF 505 East leads another one of the diverse power consists that proliferated at the time, including an F45. Fuji... (more)

A Barstow to Kansas City manifest works up-grade out of Abo Canyon and into Abo, NM on the BNSF Clovis Subdivision.

20,000 horses don't bother this 6 head of cattle, but a guy with a camera... better keep an eye on him. Meanwhile the train keeps rolling toward Abo Canyon.

BNSF 6861 is in run 8 as it pulls a long doublestack east through Abo Canyon.

BNSF 6647 leads two Norfolk Southern's and a long manifest train uphill through the Abo Canyon.

BNSF 8765 leads an eastbound doublestack past the crossovers at Abo.

BNSF 8765 east has stopped east of the Mountainair due to stopped trains ahead of it. All the stopped trains were waiting for a couple of hot westbound z-trains to pass through the area.