The Grand Canyon Line Lives. Dating back to the glory days of this rail line's original owner, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, this bridge crossing found just south of Las Vegas,... (more)

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)

Classic American Railroading. Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen splitting the semaphores near Bernal, New Mexico as it climbs the steep grade through the mountains. ... (more)

Together again after 146 years. Sharing the two remaining stalls in the old D&RG Roundhouse in Chama, New Mexico are two, narrow-gauge, wood-burning Baldwin steamers that were literally bui... (more)

A four pack of warbonnets hustles through Willard, NM on a late winter's morning, having recently crossed the Manzano mountains on the long grade out of the Rio Grande valley. Now the landscape is... (more)

Silhouetted against the morning sun on the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, dainty "Eureka" makes its way through the New Mexico desert sagebrush during the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup. Vis... (more)

"Way Out West, there’s room for our dreaming…

Winding along the lava escarpments that make up the Colorado/New Mexico border, 1875 built Eureka and Glenbrook make thei... (more)

K36 487 puts on a beautiful show, with a photo freight during the fall season of the 1989. I don't thing the colors can get much better. (Tom Ellis photo)

Racing home and dodge the annual monsoon thunderstorms, Amtrak's Train 3, The Westbound Southwest Chief roars off the base of Glorieta Pass. This spot can be seen as the actual beginning of the p... (more)

My first encounter with Dan Markoff's Eureka & Palisade 4-4-0 "Eureka" was 24 years ago in Chama. On a warm June morning the 4-4-0 was under steam outside the original Chama roundhouse ... (more)

Morning Steam. For the first time since 1953, Santa Fe 2926 moves under her own power after more than 20 years of work by the dedicated volunteers of the New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railr... (more)

BNSF 6647 leads two NS units and a long manifest train east over the summit at Mountainair, New Mexico.

BNSF 8382 leads a westbound grain train out of the Belen yard.