Three westbound Santa Fe trains pause at the service tracks at Belen, New Mexico, on the evening of May 22, 1991. Soon, all three trains will race into the night, for a nocturnal crossing of the d... (more)
Only days old after being built, Santa Fe SD75M No. 222 pauses for a drink of fuel at Belen, New Mexico, on June 2, 1995. These SD75Ms were the last locomotives built for the Santa Fe before the m... (more)
Desert pit stop The westbound fuel tracks are full on the night of May 22, 1991, as three Santa Fe trains pause at Belen, New Mexico, for a quick servicing and a new crew. Soon, the tra... (more)
Early morning BNSF stack train heads toward Abo Canyon near Belen, NM.
Dawn finds a brief lull in the action at the junction that won’t last long on the very busy Transcon line.
I'm guessing that this view has been radically altered by the recent double-tracking project currently on-going in Abo Canyon. Here still in full Santa Fe dress, 4 axle Dash 8 7416 leads a trio ... (more)
A manifest dominated by boxcars heads east into Abo Canyon with the Warbonnet liveried Dash 8 accompanied by GP60B 343 as sole power. If one of these units had failed things might have got very tr... (more)
Bookend "Kodachrome" 45's depart Belen with the TOFC load for points west.
Dawn is just breaking on Dalies Junction as a hot pig train passes through the signals en route to Belen. The line to the right heads to Albuquerque and was the original mainline, now a secondary ... (more)
Harbinger of the present-day 12 cylinder 6-axle unit these were never very popular. This example is showing the results for desert sun and hard work.
Three GP60M warbonnets and a dash 8 GE lift a Westbound intermodal out of Belen
Approaching Dalies Junction from the west, a manifest train is cresting the grade and will soon be in dynamics for the run downhill to Belen.
As the sun rises over the Manzano Mountains, whose peaks are 3500 feet above the valley floor, a hot intermodel is nearing the crest of the long grade from Belen.
3 BNSF GE's lead a vehicle train out of Belen, NM.
