Sunflowers soak up the warm, summer sun this afternoon at Wagon Mound as Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief, races west as it splits the semaphore signals at the east end of the siding here.

Speeding Past Semaphores. Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen passing semaphores near Wagon Mound, New Mexico as it races across the prairie. I was in Denver for a... (more)

AMTK 23 passes WSS Wagon Mound with original Santa Fe semaphores

BNSF light engines go into the hole at Wagon Mound to let Amtrak #3 around.

Amtrak #4 'The Southwest Chief' speeds past the east end of Wagon Mound while a BNSF tie train waits in the hole

For almost 100 years, semaphore signals have guarded the Santa Fe mainline through Northeastern New Mexico. The weathered blades tell a story of cold winters, windy days and fierce summer thunders... (more)

The eastbound Chief races the sun at the semaphores near Wagon Mound on the Raton sub.

The westbound Southwest Chief passes the semaphore signals at the north end of Wagon Mound Siding.

The westbound Southwest Chief storms through the semaphore-protected east end of Wagon Mound siding as a distant storm cell begins to build and roll into the area.

Wagons East!!!

For years, I've joked with fellow coworker and RailPictures contribuitor Elijah Cross about getting a very long telephoto lens and shooting the intermediate pai... (more)

Amtrak #4, the Los Angeles - Chicago Southwest Chief, splits the blades north of the Wagon Mound National Monument in New Mexico.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief speeds across BNSF's Raton Sub, knocking down the semaphore signals that stand in Wagon Mound, New Mexico.

A pair of BNSF units is seen splitting the intermediate semaphores north of Wagon Mound. The power is headed to Colmor where they will pickup a train of track equipment and bring it up to Trinidad... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Chief, train No3 bound for Los Angeles from Chicago polishes the rails at Wagon Mound, New Mexico on May 2, 2019. The famous semaphores of the region have yet again been placed ... (more)

Low winter light fills a timeless scene at Wagon Mound, New Mexico, as Amtrak's Southwest Chief races across the desert towards Chicago — an entirely different world away from the Land of Enchan... (more)