In what’s sounding like a broken record, the easternmost blade on NMRX’s Railroad greets the second full moon of 2023, the ‘Snow Moon’ as it rises above the Sangre de Christo Mountains in New Mexico. This blade has been threatened for years with replacement and the end looked to be in 2022 as the Rail Runner installed a complete new signal system from Madrid to Lamy, including new switches at the latter to facilitate the removal of ‘Poor Man’s CTC’. Due to the bureaucracy in New Mexico, nearly a year later, the old signal system is still at work as power still has not been run to the new signals, though in the last couple of weeks more activity has been occurring. Ironically, the BNSF came through and wiped out nearly 25 miles of semaphores between the time this signal's replacement was placed and before it was put in service. Will this be the final full moon to fall on this blade?
(Note: This is a composite, a focus stacked on, as the moon and blade were shot at differing focus points and blended in photoshop)
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
