BNSF 6396 awaits a slot in Gallup Yard while BNSF 7287 on a stack train races east at sunset.

Navajo Mine Railroad ET44 2026 brings up the rear of a southbound coal move with an Alco C425 leading out of the Four Corners Station.

Starting Up Raton. Amtrak Southwest Chief (Train 4) was splitting the searchlights and climbing the grade at Raton, New Mexico on April 14, 2022 as the illuminated the early spring scene. W... (more)

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.

A former Santa Fe Doodlebug rests in a small park in Belen. Built in 1932, this unit was used in commuter service between Albuquerque and Belen during the 30s and 40s and between Clovis and Carlsb... (more)

A BNSF yard job stretches a cut of trailers past the Belen Harvey House Museum. Once part of an extensive network of hotels and restaurants throughout the Santa Fe, this museum is now owned by the... (more)

“Candid” shots are always my favorite so we we delighted to catch 487 doing “real work” much a she would have in the 50s. Evidently the diesel was down and steam was making up a work trai... (more)

A former Santa Fe unit rescues what was once the Super Chief as the train hauls past the now defunct blades near Robinson, NM. The intermediate's fate was expedited after a week of signal problems... (more)

The stars of the universe glow an intense shine over the darkness of northern New Mexico as the intermediate semaphore blades stand guard over the former ATSF Transcontinental. Despite being over ... (more)

With the sun fading over the New Mexico Desert, Amtrak #4 heads east to Chicago. The train knocks down a set of almost 100 year old semaphores, dating back to the steam era.

Amtrak South West Chief splits signals at east siding switch Chappel.

East bound at Intermediate south of Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Heritage At Both Ends. On Thursday, April 14, 2022, Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044), former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built... (more)

'Last Full Moon On The Right'

With the days left of this sentinel of the high desert measured in mere days, one of the final semaphores on the New Mexico Department of Transpor... (more)