A freezing fog covers the grass and brush around Adamana at noon on December 27, 1986. Train 2-338, a main line local, has just finished switching a LPG storage facility and is now en route to Win... (more)

On May 11, 1974, U23Cs 7512 and 7506 wiggle through curves above Bayard, New Mexico, on the Santa Rita District with copper ore for the crusher and smelter at Hurley. The train is crossing Whitewa... (more)

Santa Fe train 865, THE WHIRLWIND, approaches Texico, New Mexico, on the New Mexico-Texas, border, on March 16, 1974, with MP GP35s 618, 625, and C&EI GP40 660. The 865 was a joint Santa Fe-MP man... (more)

Motor train #25 (Clovis to Carlsbad, New Mexico) has just left the Clovis wye and is headed south on the Carlsbad District. Motor cars M.160 and M.190 alternated on this run until the trains were ... (more)

On August 18, 1990, train 961 eases into Belen on the north main for servicing and a crew change. On the head end are 140-102-2811-3615-5264 (GP60M/GP60M/GP35/GP39-2/SDF40-2). At left, moving off ... (more)

You riding in the cupola of caboose 999272 on the rear of train #52, a mainline local, as it nears Engle, New Mexico, on October 20, 1968. The train originated in El Paso, Texas, and is en route t... (more)

Santa Fe's westbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF negotiates a "shoo-fly" around a freight train derailment at Dunmoor, New Mexico, on November 28, 1969. A SD24 and three GP35s were involved in the mishap,... (more)

Clovis' 250-ton locomotive crane 199798 makes short work of rerailing an errant covered hopper in Clovis Yard, December 22, 1988. The 199798 was built by Industrial Brownhoist in 1946 and was Sant... (more)

Motor train #26 has just arrived from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and is rounding the east leg of the Clovis wye. Baldwin switcher 2253 is waiting to couple to the rear of chair-observation 3197 and wil... (more)

"Yellowbonnet" F9As 284C and 287C are on the Clovis-Slaton Local switching cars at Texico on the New Mexico-Texas state line. These two units are two of the seven 281 Class F9 cab units to receive... (more)

A Santa Fe northbound freight passes through Cameron, Texas, on March 6, 1974, behind an A-B-B-B set of F-units. Lead unit 332L was one of seven former red/silver passenger cab units to receive th... (more)

Santa Fe eastbound train 804 pauses for a crew change at Seligman, Arizona, on December 28, 1972, durning a brief snow squall. Locomotives on Extra 4551 East: 4551-4562-4530-9842 (SD24/SD24/SD24/R... (more)

The York Canyon to Fontana, Calif., unit coal train inches around the back side of the loading loop at York Canyon on August 28, 1968. The train hauled coal to the Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana unt... (more)

A southbound Duval sulphur train kicks up New Mexico real estate as train 785 speeds through Cameo, ten miles northeast of Portales, New Mexico, on the Carlsbad Subdivision. On the head end are 56... (more)

A northbound potash train holds the main at Portales, New Mexico, while a southbound sulphur train waits in the siding. Portales was on Santa Fe's Carlsbad Subdivision 17 miles south of Clovis. Th... (more)