Keeping control of their tonnage as they decend the Sangre de Christo range and pass the east siding switch, the crew of this train will make a pickup from the Santa Fe Southern interchange track... (more)
Santa Fe Southern mixed nears Lamy from Santa Fe. The boxcars are beer empties, SFS takes inbound loads for a distributor in SF. Other outbound loads include landscaping stone.
Here's the Santa Fe Southern at the Lamy depot, still used today by Amtrak. I swear the ghosts of R. Oppenheimer and other Manhattan Project engineers still linger here as they surely must've pas... (more)
September is a great month to railfan New Mexico, the desert flowers are in bloom and the light starts getting real nice as the Santa Fe Southern mixed nears Lamy.