It is a hot summer day as the eastbound Southwest Chief comes upon the first set of intermediate semaphores north of the village of Wagon Mound. The village name comes from the hill in the backgro... (more)
The Eastbound Southwest Chief rolls over Raton Pass and further into Colorado, splitting through one of the handful of old Santa Fe cantilever signal bridges.
The Southwest Chief races across the plains of Southern Colorado as the evening monsoons roar in the fading light of a summer's night and the last of the evening's sunset burns away to darkness.