Santa Fe Lives On in the Desert: For a period, the Southwestern Railroad in southern New Mexico utilized a fleet of ex Santa Fe GP30 locomotives to haul freight, a few of which even kept th... (more)

Southwestern 3776 and SW 3910 sit in the interchange yard with the Union Pacific as a typical southwest desert dust storm blows through Deming, New Mexico.

Early morning at the small Southwestern RR yard at Deming, finds a set of road power ready for a day's work. SW 3103 is an ex CIT lease unit.

North of Deming by about 30 miles is the Southwestern's small yard and shop at Hurley. Seen here is one of there ex ATSF GP30's in the company's new paint. This is the only unit painted like this.

A very cold morning at Deming finds SW 3910 resting out the weekend.

Southwestern Railway out of Deming, NM has a new paint scheme seen here on 2468 in the late evening on 10/29/16.

Cimarron Valley's turn from the BNSF interchange at Dodge City , KS heads west through Haggard with an eclectic collection of locomotives.

Cimarron Valley's turn to the BNSF interchange in Dodge City, KS heads west for home, but first it must switch the elevator at Montezuma.

Southwestern Railway's turn to Dodge City slowly makes it's way down the line east of Ensign.

One of the Southwestern Railway's newest units, a ex LMX dash 8 leads a westbound train towards Dodge City to interchange with the BNSF.

A Southwestern Railway grain train crosses through the farmland and countryside of western Kansas.

Sky Scrapers Of The West A Southwestern Railway grain train creeps into Johnson City, Kansas, splitting a couple grain elevators. These grain elevators are the only things that mark the loc... (more)

The Cimarron Valley's BNSF interchange turn is heading for home at slow speed behind an eclectic pair of GP26s, a GP30, and a B39-8, quite a contrast to the space age wind turbines that dot the la... (more)

Southwestern Railway's line north out of Deming, NM at Hurley finds ex Santa Fe power now lettered SWRR.

Cimarron Valley's turn back to Satanta departs Dodge City, KS after interchanging cars with BNSF.