Amtrak's Southwest Chief splits its first pair of semaphores. It'll pass at least a dozen more on its westward journey.

Amtrak #4 'The Southwest Chief' hustles past the blades at Colmor on a stormy afternoon in the desert.

Silent Sentinels- Standing tall over the former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe main line, two aged semaphore signals control the movements of but two trains per day. With the reorganization of... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train No. 3 charges through the interlocking at WSS Colmor at track speed on BNSF's former Santa Fe Raton Subdivision.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train No. 3 splits the historic Santa Fe semaphore signals at the Colmor intermediates on its way to Albuquerque, N.M., and points west.

Thunderstorms build in the background as Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief races through the intermediate Semaphore Signals by Colmor siding.

It's a snowy mid-January afternoon, and fog consumes the vast grasslands of Northern New Mexico. Breaking through the fog, running as advertised Amtrak's Southwest Chief passes by the semaphore si... (more)

A small dusting on the Raton sub as an on time Southwest Chief makes its journey back to Chicago

After a beautifully sunny trip through the Raton Pass, Amtrak's Westbound Southwest Chief glides through the blades of Colmor, NM, which has been enveloped by an eerie fog. The fog would soon give... (more)

North Star and semaphores… Under the watchful gaze of the North Star a pair of near century old Union Switch & Signal upper quadrant semaphores stand a silent guard along BNSF's Raton Subdivision ... (more)

As thunderheads kick up over northern New Mexico Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief splits a pair of Union Switch and Signal upper quadrant semaphore signals (7121 and 7121), west of Colmor, on BN... (more)

Waiting on the Chief……silhouetted against the timeless light of the moon a pair of Union Switch & Signal intermediate semaphores stand guard over BNSF's Raton Subdivision in northern New Mexico. T... (more)

The Southwest Chief passes the semaphores at the west end of Colmor, N.M., as it heads east.

With the afternoon's monsoons passed, and pelting a different portion of the plains, the endangered former AT&SF semaphores in the ghost town of Colmor, New Mexico, faithfully guard the Raton Subd... (more)

79. Santa Fe All the Way.