A Blast to the Past - The 'Pepsi Can' heritage paint, which pays tribute to the early paint schemes found on Amtrak's fleet of Dash-8 locomotives, lives on shielding a P42 locomotive as Amt... (more)
A four-pack of Dash 9s lead yet another intermodal train over the crest of the grade out of the Rio Grande river valley at Dalies, NM - junction with the passenger line via Albuquerque and Raton P... (more)
An ATSF semaphore signal waits patiently for the next day’s Southwest Chief after the passage of a thunderstorm.
A railfan catches the Southwest Chief as it gets ready to leave the station at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The Chief is seen at Raton New Mexico in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
El Capitan, AT&SF train 21, is seen descending on the west side of Raton Pass near Lynn New Mexico, on January 16th 1944. Note the wartime headlight visor on E6 13. Otto Perry photo, from my colle... (more)
Rays of sunlight break through the storm clouds as an eastbound manifest works its way down the old Santa Fe in Valencia County, New Mexico.
A westbound stacker heads towards a storm as sunset approaches on the old Santa Fe in Valencia County, New Mexico.
Amtrak 4 slows down due to signal issues during a thunderstorm. The famed “Wagon Mound” can be seen among the dark clouds and distant thunderheads.
Amtrak 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, has just knocked down the semaphore signals in Levy, NM on its way towards Raton, NM. A thunderstorm popped up and it started to rain very heavily just as... (more)
A grain train rolls east down the BNSF Clovis Subdivision as a thunderstorm moves across the distant sky in Bodega, New Mexico.
On the afternoon of June 5, 2018, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad K-36 No. 484 is replenished with sand alongside the landmark coaling tower and sand house at Chama, New Mexico. Even though it is... (more)
The Southwest Chief #4 train leaves Wagon Mound, New Mexico behind and gets ready to run through the intermediate semaphore on its way to Raton.
The Southwest Chief, with Amtrak engine #10 in the lead, passes through Wagon Mound, New Mexico.
The Sky Railway wolf and the Rail Runner birds sit lined up in Santa Fe before the Southbound departure of the 511 train to Albuquerque.
