UP 9083 leads a heavy WB manifest through Lisbon as it approaches Lordsburg for pick ups

A member of the team that is restoring Santa Fe 2926 climbs out of the firebox of the big Northern. More information about the restoration of the locomotive can be found at their website: www.nms... (more)

The Air Up There

Cumbres and Toltec K-36 No. 487 leaps over Wolf Creek on Lobato Trestle on a spectacular fall afternoon. The former Denver and Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge... (more)

UP 2681 leads a WB stack train through Lizard during a beautiful golden hour

UP 8958 leads an Eastbound manifest through the cuts outside of El Paso

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 dominates... (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)