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 Subdivisio... (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 Mexic... (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.

Whipping up the loose snow set down by its westbound counterpart earlier in the day, the eastbound Southwest Chief charges across the plains of northern New Mexico. The nine car train is ab... (more)

An eastbound San Bernardino, CA, to Willow Springs empty flat train is making track speed leaning into the super elevated curve splitting the semaphores on the last main line in America with in se... (more)

Amtrak 3 splits the 712 intermediates just West of Colmor, NM during a snow storm.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief passes the semaphores at Colmor on its westbound journey. With recent efforts to replace the semaphores around Watrous proceeding and a question looming regarding Amtrak ... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Chief splits the semaphores at the west end of Colmor on its way to Los Angeles.

Amtrak's SW Chief passes the first set of semaphores on its westward journey, starting an amazing stretch of classic signaling in high plains of New Mexico.

The semaphores at MP 706.1 sit in silence as a storm rages on in the distance. No trains would pass this location until the next day. 8/3/11.