Sunday Summer Storm. As a Union Pacific Railroad stack train with UP 9067 leading (SD70AH-T4C) approaches the outskirts of Deming, New Mexico on Sunday, July 19, 2020, the foreboding sky do... (more)
Same as it ever was... Conductor Ray Martinez brings K-36 487 to a hook to its train on a warm October morning. No radios here, as Ray talks through his body movements to let ... (more)
One of Santa Fe’s pre-Super Fleet GP50’s leads a forty-eight car eastbound train across the second bridge that it will encounter in Abo Canyon.
Making its entrance into Abo Canyon, New Mexico at 3:10 pm, a 74-car eastbound Santa Fe manifest crosses the first of several bridges in the canyon.
An eastbound 60-car Santa Fe manifest crosses the first bridge that it will encounter in Abo Canyon. In the next few miles, it will travel through one of the most scenic areas on the Santa Fe syst... (more)
After crossing the plains east of Belen, New Mexico, an eastbound Santa Fe TOFC train is crossing the first bridge that it will encounter in Abo Canyon.
Our first morning at Abo Canyon, New Mexico started with a caboose hop with two GP30’s. It was fortunate to get it then, before we started climbing hills away from the tracks.
While it appears the last vestiges of fall have arrived, the temperature seems anything but. The weather in the greater Southwestern United States has been "off" this whole year it seem... (more)
BNSF 8163 waiting for the green light at sunset in Clovis, NM.
Ablaze in Golde Light Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36 2-8-2 489 is taking water at the north tank in Chama on a brisk, chilly September morning ablaze in Aspen gold light jus... (more)
BNSF 7905 is tied down in the siding at Springer, NM with a MOW tie train.
BNSF light engines go into the hole at Wagon Mound to let Amtrak #3 around.
A new BNSF ES44C4 #3274 leads a tie train by east end Colmor. They'd go as far as Springer and tie down for the day.
Amtrak #4 'The Southwest Chief' speeds past the east end of Wagon Mound while a BNSF tie train waits in the hole
The West End. The furthest west semaphores on the BNSF route of the Amtrak Southwest Chief is the 850 Intermediates in Los Cerillos, NM. As BNSF appears to be working from east/north to west/south... (more)
