The westbound Southwest Chief arrives in Gallup during Golden Hour.

Steamscape: The view from Big Horn Peak. Looking down from the northern slope of Big Horn Peak, on the Colorado/New Mexico Border, we watch as Eureka & Palisade #4 and Carson & Tahoe Lumber... (more)

The 8am train from Antonito,CO nears its destination of Chama,NM behind K-36 #489 just after a brief snow/sleet storm

C&TS K-36 #484 eases down the mountain with a freight train in tow amongst some brilliant autumn colors.

The Raton Roundhouse - Gone, but not Forgotten On a warm, summer morning in northern New Mexico, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief drifts downgrade into the quiet, mountain town of ... (more)

Eureka and Palisade 4-4-0 # 4 and 2-6-0 Glenbrook along with 2-8-0 425 head back to Chama after a problem caused an early return to Chama an a otherwise beautiful Day.

It's a quiet, Saturday morning in downtown Albuquerque as a number of Rail Runner Express trainsets layover waiting for their next assignment.

Racing through a long, slow moving shadow being cast over the western end of the siding at Levy by a cloud, Amtrak 4 is doing full track speed as it prepares to knock down the clear signal here wi... (more)

Amtrak 3 splits the intermediate semaphore signals just south of Las Vegas as it continues its journey west toward Glorieta Pass. In the foreground, a sea of wild sunflowers is in full bloom thank... (more)

Train 702 hustles between the dual lanes of Interstate 25 as it begins to climb out of a dip in the southwestern terrain on the journey from Belen to Santa Fe.

A Morning At The Shops. A towering face of concrete and glass begins to warm in the morning sunlight as a new day begins in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Having stood its ground here for close t... (more)

The last hurrah of four axle mainline power in the form of Dash8s and GP60s was being played out on BNSF as 6 axle road power was soon to become dominant. But not quite yet, as a four-pack of Dash... (more)

Taking a break between runs, a loaded BNSF rail train lays over in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Originally called to make the remainder of the run down to Albuquerque over the course of the two days I w... (more)

On a glorious, summer afternoon in New Mexico, AMTK 135 hustles the eastbound Southwest Chief across the flats at Schomberg under a stunning sky. The train is using ever bit of the dwindling milea... (more)