A BNSF freight of carload and vehicle traffic bends around the curve east of Belen, NM and approaches Abo Canyon with a nice variety of early merger color. At this time, none of the units had been... (more)

A westbound Q-train exits Abo Canyon with a nice mix of ATSF and BN color on the point. It's April 1998 and the BNSF heritage I scheme has already been replaced by Heritage II. However this train ... (more)

A few miles east of Belen, NM, we see BNSF #6598 leading a westbound double stack train through the vast openness that is central New Mexico.

4 FXE units are on the point of a southbound Belen to El Paso mixed freight at South Belen.

While a yard job switches cars in the background, the conductor on Ferromex 4080 waits for a green signal before giving the ok to back the power into the Belen yard.

Another colorful set of road power awaits assignment at BNSF's busy Belen yard.

BNSF 1714 along with a colorful set of power await assignment at Belen.

BNSF 1755 at Belen NM.

With just a few minutes light left and the Australian photographer trembling with excitement at the amazing sight in his viewfinder, BNSF 6780 and 6837, a pair of ES44C4’s lead an eastbound trai... (more)

With an eastbound of empty hoppers, BNSF ES44AC 6387 leads BNSF SD70MAC 9688, still in the Executive colour scheme, BNSF C44-9W 4844 and ES44C4 7043 on the charge up the 1.25% grade at Scholle NM ... (more)

A Busy Morning at Belen: at left, inbound Santa Fe 675 East with double stacks while at right, outbound Santa Fe 850 West with trailers at Reinken Avenue on April 5, 1998.

A Santa Fe GP35u switches cars at the north end of BNSF's Belen Yard on the morning of April 5, 1998. In the background above the trailer, a pair of through trains pause briefly for a new crew to ... (more)

A colorful power consist leads a BNSF train approaching a crew change at Belen, New Mexico on April 4, 1998.

A trio of Santa Fe Super Fleet GEs lead a stack train through Madrone on the outskirts of Belen, New Mexico on April 2, 1998.

Nearly the last single track section of the BNSF Transcontinental was the western entrance into Abo canyon. Now there are two bridges.