Working upgrade at the Gallians crossovers, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, passes beneath the original ATSF canteliver signal bridges here as it pounds the jointed rails of the or... (more)

The Raton Roundhouse - Gone, but not Forgotten On a warm, summer morning in northern New Mexico, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief drifts downgrade into the quiet, mountain town of ... (more)

It's a quiet, Saturday morning in downtown Albuquerque as a number of Rail Runner Express trainsets layover waiting for their next assignment.

Dropping downgrade through Wootton, Colorado, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief has had another successful day conquering Raton Pass as the train begins its decent toward Trinidad.

Racing through a long, slow moving shadow being cast over the western end of the siding at Levy by a cloud, Amtrak 4 is doing full track speed as it prepares to knock down the clear signal here wi... (more)

Amtrak 3 splits the intermediate semaphore signals just south of Las Vegas as it continues its journey west toward Glorieta Pass. In the foreground, a sea of wild sunflowers is in full bloom thank... (more)

Train 702 hustles between the dual lanes of Interstate 25 as it begins to climb out of a dip in the southwestern terrain on the journey from Belen to Santa Fe.

A Morning At The Shops. A towering face of concrete and glass begins to warm in the morning sunlight as a new day begins in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Having stood its ground here for close t... (more)

The $25 Photo. While making the drive from Southern California to Albuquerque in a single day, I got lunch in Winslow with a friend who mentioned there was a CSX leader on the point of a we... (more)

Working its way out of a dip in the terrain and past the original ATSF water storage tower here that once helped quench the thirty of Santa Fe steam locomotives, BNSF 8358 leads an eastbound inter... (more)

Taking a break between runs, a loaded BNSF rail train lays over in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Originally called to make the remainder of the run down to Albuquerque over the course of the two days I w... (more)

On a glorious, summer afternoon in New Mexico, AMTK 135 hustles the eastbound Southwest Chief across the flats at Schomberg under a stunning sky. The train is using ever bit of the dwindling milea... (more)

The Grand Canyon Line Lives. Dating back to the glory days of this rail line's original owner, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, this bridge crossing found just south of Las Vegas,... (more)

With thousands upon thousands of feet of westbound tonnage on the drawbar, BNSF 6901 hustles its lengthy train out of New Mexico and into Arizona at Lupton with the iconic, dramatic rock formation... (more)

Having just rolled to a stop next to the original ATSF depot here at Ash Fork, BNSF 4244 waits to get back on the move as it waits for an east/southbound intermodal to clear the switch east of tow... (more)