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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1972 - 12/31/2000
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Servicing an F
Title:  Servicing an F
Description:  327, a passenger service F7A converted to freight duty, is shown here under the sand tower at Clovis NM
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:26:25 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 327L(F7A)
Views:  1168   Comments: 0
Santa Fe SD26
Title:  Santa Fe SD26
Description:  ATSF SD26 4629 sits in the engine facility at Clovis NM not long after dawn on 18 Aug 1974. The unit had been rebuilt from SD24 4529 only nine months previously; it would work on the ATSF until traded in to EMD in 1985.
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:15:18 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4629(SD26)
Views:  2160   Comments: 0
ATSF F9A 286L at Clovis
Title:  ATSF F9A 286L at Clovis
Description:  Santa Fe F9A 286L sits at the Clovis NM engine facility in the summer of 1974.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:20:22 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 286(F9A)
Views:  1677   Comments: 1
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  The Air Force at one time had an extensive set of trackage at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. This was the northeast end of the line in 1974; Sierra Blanca is seen in the distance.
Photo Date:  8/19/1974  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 10:34:16 AM
Location:  Holloman AFB, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Track
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Views:  452   Comments: 0
Cotton Belt at Alamogordo
Title:  Cotton Belt at Alamogordo
Description:  Cotton Belt GP35 6517 works the Alamogordo Local late on an afternoon. Once its job is done the unit will take the train back to El Paso.
Photo Date:  10/14/1974  Upload Date: 10/25/2012 8:25:14 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSW 6517(GP35)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
SP freight
Title:  SP freight
Description:  A westbound SP freight holds at Alamogordo on a cloudy day in 1974.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:26:10 AM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  294   Comments: 0
SP Station, Vaughn NM
Title:  SP Station, Vaughn NM
Description:  Southern Pacific station, Vaughn NM
Photo Date:  8/8/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2010 8:41:00 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  373   Comments: 0
Santa Fe westbound at Vaughn
Title:  Santa Fe westbound at Vaughn
Description:  A trio of Santa Fe '45s run a train westbound at Vaugn NM. That's the SP ElPaso to Tucumcari line running behind the train.
Photo Date:  8/8/1975  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 6:10:38 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 5616(SD45)
Views:  644   Comments: 0
Westbound across the Desert
Title:  Westbound across the Desert
Description:  Three units have a westbound piggyback train running at track speed at Vaughn NM in the summer of 1975. SD45 5540 leads SD45-2 5679 and SD45 5616. That's my brother Mark trying to find shade by the telephone pole and our '72 Fiat 850 Spyder convertible by the road.
Photo Date:  8/8/1975  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 6:11:07 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 5540(SD45)
Views:  485   Comments: 0
ATSF GP7 2763
Title:  ATSF GP7 2763
Description:  Santa Fe GP7 2763 works the Clovis Yard in Sept. 1975
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 1:34:21 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2763(GP7)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
ATSF GP7B 2792A
Title:  ATSF GP7B 2792A
Description:  Santa Fe GP7B 2792A working the yard with GP9 2926
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 1:35:03 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2792A(GP7B)
Views:  1568   Comments: 1
ATSF CF7 2582
Title:  ATSF CF7 2582
Description:  Santa Fe CF7 2582 at Clovis NM in the late afternoon sun
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 7/18/2013 9:28:06 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2582(CF7)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
A plethora of Santa Fe SD26s
Title:  A plethora of Santa Fe SD26s
Description:  ATSF 4629 leads several sisters and a remote control power car at Clovis in August 1975.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 3:20:23 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4629(SD26)
Views:  415   Comments: 1
20% of the World's GP7Bs
Title:  20% of the World's GP7Bs
Description:  EMD built only five GP7Bs and they all went to Santa Fe. During the mid-70s you could usually find one or two working as switchers at the Clovis NM yards. Here 2790A assists CF7 2553; it would be rebuilt with a cab and into a GP9U in 1978.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 3/9/2008 8:45:24 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2790A(GP7B)
Views:  2366   Comments: 1
Santa Fe CF7 2624 at Clovis
Title:  Santa Fe CF7 2624 at Clovis
Description:  Santa Fe CF7 2624 at Clovis in September 1975. Rebuilt from F3A 35 2/72
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 2:41:41 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2624(CF7)
Views:  582   Comments: 0
MP and Santa Fe
Title:  MP and Santa Fe
Description:  During the late 1970s the MP ran a nightly Ft Worth to the Santa Fe at Clovis NM. You could usually catch the MoPac power in the morning- as shown here. This was when you could sign a waiver in the yard office and gain access to the entire facility.
Photo Date:  12/19/1975  Upload Date: 1/13/2008 10:55:49 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MP 2124(GP38-2) ATSF 4627(SD26)
Views:  708   Comments: 0
ATSF GP38 3554
Title:  ATSF GP38 3554
Description:  Santa Fe GP38 3554 at Clovis NM
Photo Date:  12/20/1975  Upload Date: 8/12/2010 9:51:18 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 3554(GP38)
Views:  621   Comments: 1
Santa Fe GP7B 2790A
Title:  Santa Fe GP7B 2790A
Description:  Santa Fe GP7B 2790B, one of only five built, working the yard at Clovis NM in 1976
Photo Date:  1/4/1976  Upload Date: 11/28/2010 7:41:39 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2790A(GP7B)
Views:  4250   Comments: 0
ATSF GP7 2753
Title:  ATSF GP7 2753
Description:  Santa Fe GP7 2753 was 24 years old when this picture was shot. 2753 would go through the Cleburne rebuild process four years later and emerge as GP7U 2184. It would subsequently end up in the WATCO/WAMX camp.
Photo Date:  5/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/7/2010 8:16:34 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2753(GP7)
Views:  871   Comments: 3
ATSF SD45-2 5702
Title:  ATSF SD45-2 5702
Description:  Bi-Centennial SD45-2 5702 at Clovis
Photo Date:  5/11/1976  Upload Date: 2/18/2012 10:44:25 AM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 5702(SD45-2)
Views:  501   Comments: 0
Rock Island headed for El Paso
Title:  Rock Island headed for El Paso
Description:  It's 2PM in the desert as four Rock Island units (GP40 4715, U28B 252, GP40s 391, 388) lead a train towards El Paso on the SP Golden State Route. Trailing behind is a typical '70s era freight train, with box cars, refrigerator cars, some tank cars and a couple of open-sided auto racks.
Photo Date:  5/23/1976  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 12:13:00 PM
Location:  Orogrande, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 4715(GP40)
Views:  1011   Comments: 0
SP local
Title:  SP local
Description:  It's work done, SP's Alamogordo Local is headed south towards El Paso and home with seven cars and a caboose. The SW1500 was not typical; this train usually rated a single geep for power.
Photo Date:  5/23/1976  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:28:40 AM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 2508(SW1500)
Views:  795   Comments: 0
At the Carlsbad Fuel Racks
Title:  At the Carlsbad Fuel Racks
Description:  Two strings of Santa Fe power hang out at the Carlsbad terminal in February 1983. The GEs are down from Clovis; the GP7/Slug teams work the local potash branches.
Photo Date:  2/13/1983  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 3:18:47 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 7498(B36-7) ATSF 1318(GP7u)
Views:  672   Comments: 0
Santa Fe GEs
Title:  Santa Fe GEs
Description:  Santa Fe only had 16 B36-7s on its entire roster- three are shown here at the Carlsbad NM engine facility (7498, 7494, 7493)
Photo Date:  2/13/1983  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:27:16 PM
Location:  Carlsbad, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 7498(B36-7)
Views:  598   Comments: 0
SP B30-7 7868
Title:  SP B30-7 7868
Description:  SP B30-7 7868 at Deming NM.
Photo Date:  7/8/1983  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 5:57:58 PM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 7868(B30-7)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
No Coal today, thanks!
Title:  No Coal today, thanks!
Description:  Five units bring an eastbound SP freight through the legs of a long-retired coal tower at Deming NM in the summer of 1983. SD40T-2 8525 is followed by a trio of B30-7s and a single GP40-2. The tower dates from the mid-1920s when SP acquired the El Paso & Southwestern RR, whose steam power burned coal instead of oil, five towers being built between El Paso and Tucson on the SP "north" main to service the 'new' power. They all came down by 1998.
Photo Date:  7/8/1983  Upload Date: 8/29/2009 10:35:43 PM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8525(SD40T-2)
Views:  365   Comments: 2
Southern Pacific- late in life
Title:  Southern Pacific- late in life
Description:  An eastbound Espee freight pulls through Deming NM in July 1983. SD40-2 8525 leads a quartet of four-axle units on the way to El Paso.
Photo Date:  7/8/1983  Upload Date: 3/22/2008 7:49:49 PM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8525(SD40T-2)
Views:  349   Comments: 1
Signature Espee in New Mexico
Title:  Signature Espee in New Mexico
Description:  Four weatherbeaten SP EMD six-axle units bring a train through Lordsburg NM in 1983. SD45 9124 heads up SD40R 7357, SD45T-2 9304 and SD40T-2 8377.
Photo Date:  7/9/1983  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:15:09 PM
Location:  Lordsburg, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 9124(SD45)
Views:  508   Comments: 0
San Diego & Arizona Eastern headed east
Title:  San Diego & Arizona Eastern headed east
Description:  August 1983 on a family move and we pulled into Tucumcari NM for gas and food; and a quick run through the SP yard; wonder of wonders, three SD&AE geeps (101-103) were present, apparantly moving east to Kyle RR in Kansas. This is 103, a de-turboed former UP GP20.
Photo Date:  8/2/1983  Upload Date: 9/8/2009 8:17:31 PM
Location:  Tucumcari, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SDAE 103(GP9R)
Views:  627   Comments: 0
SD&AE GP9 in transit
Title:  SD&AE GP9 in transit
Description:  San Diego & Arizona Eastern GP9 102 is one of three SDAE units (101 to 103) being transfered between Kyle roads on the SP in August 1983
Photo Date:  8/2/1983  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 6:14:40 PM
Location:  Tucumcari, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SDAE 102(GP9)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon at Dalies
Title:  Late Afternoon at Dalies
Description:  Dalies, New Mexico is the junction of the old Santa Fe lines from Belen and Albuquerque. On most days its a very busy place. Here four Warbonnets, three of which are still marked for the Santa Fe, bring a double stack through town with a freight bound for Belen and points east. 635 is followed by a pair of GP60Bs (329, 326) and BNSF SD75M 8215.
Photo Date:  11/29/1999  Upload Date: 1/27/2009 9:43:52 PM
Location:  Dalies, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 635(C44-9W)
Views:  403   Comments: 1
UP in New Mexico
Title:  UP in New Mexico
Description:  Three units run elephant-style on the UP's former SP line on its way to El Paso. 3753 is acompanied by GP60 5872 and SD40T-2 4560.
Photo Date:  11/16/2000  Upload Date: 7/11/2010 9:42:51 AM
Location:  Salinas, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3753(SD40-2)
Views:  265   Comments: 3
Past Sierra Blanca
Title:  Past Sierra Blanca
Description:  Four units haul a westbound train past Sierra Blanca on the former SP Golden State Route in central New Mexico. SD40-2 3744 leads SD40-2 B4136, SD40T-2 SP 8559 and SD40T-2 4422.
Photo Date:  11/16/2000  Upload Date: 7/11/2010 9:43:09 AM
Location:  Tularosa, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3744(SD40-2)
Views:  625   Comments: 4
WB UP Grain on the Golden State Route
Title:  WB UP Grain on the Golden State Route
Description:  Four units bring a grain train westbound on the UP near Tularosa NM in November 2000. UP SD40-2 3744 is followed by B4136 and SD40T-2s SP 8559, UP 4422
Photo Date:  11/16/2000  Upload Date: 12/20/2008 10:20:46 PM
Location:  Tularosa, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3744(SD40-2)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Eastbound UP
Title:  Eastbound UP
Description:  UP AC6000 7523 leads a freight eastbound north of Orogrande NM, headed for Tucumcari on the old Golden State Route.
Photo Date:  11/16/2000  Upload Date: 1/20/2008 9:37:23 PM
Location:  Orogrande, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7523(AC60CW)
Views:  554   Comments: 0
As the Sun Slowly Sinks in the West
Title:  As the Sun Slowly Sinks in the West
Description:  A UP grain train runs south on undulating track along the Golden State Route near Orogrande NM in November 2000.
Photo Date:  11/16/2000  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:14:57 PM
Location:  Orogrande, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
Sunset on the Golden State Route
Title:  Sunset on the Golden State Route
Description:  Four units drag a grain train south very late in the afternoon in November 2000. It will be fully dark before they reach El Paso.
Photo Date:  11/16/2000  Upload Date: 2/2/2008 12:24:44 AM
Location:  Orogrande, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3744(SD40-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 2
On Twin Mountain
Title:  On Twin Mountain
Description:  A trio of BNSF GEs (5472, 5007, 4359) wheel a freight towards Trinchera Pass on the former C&S line in northeast New Mexico. Folsom is still a few miles ahead.
Photo Date:  7/27/2010  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 9:59:37 PM
Location:  Folsom, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5472(C44-9W)
Views:  481   Comments: 0
Around Twin Mountain Horshoe Curve
Title:  Around Twin Mountain Horshoe Curve
Description:  Three BNSF GEs bring a freight around Twin Mountain Horseshoe Curve on a July morning. this is old C&S country; and the train is bound for Denver. And yes, this shot was taken from an aircraft.
Photo Date:  7/27/2010  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 9:59:49 PM
Location:  Folsom, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  241   Comments: 0
Shadows of a Glorious Past
Title:  Shadows of a Glorious Past
Description:  This is what remains of the former Santa Fe yard at Raton NM. Signs of the roundhouse and shop still remain, athough the once-critical line across Raton Pass is now reduced to but two Amtrak trains on a daily basis on a normal day.
Photo Date:  7/27/2010  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 10:00:12 PM
Location:  Raton, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  437   Comments: 2
Station Stop: Raton
Title:  Station Stop: Raton
Description:  Amtrak's Southwest Chief is two hours late as it slows to stop at Raton NM, where it will pick up a large load of Boy Scouts who are fresh out Philmont.
Photo Date:  7/27/2010  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 10:01:58 PM
Location:  Raton, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 206(P42DC)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Waiting at Rincon
Title:  Waiting at Rincon
Description:  Two Southwest RR units sit dead at the road's connection with the BNSF at Rincon NM, waiting their call to head back to Deming. The GP30 doesn't appear to have been here too long from Larry's Truck. They haven't spent a lot of time on it yet- although it does carry simple white "SWRR" under the cab. SD40-2 3776 trails.
Photo Date:  8/28/2014  Upload Date: 8/28/2014 6:27:23 PM
Location:  Rincon, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2414(GP30u)
Views:  592   Comments: 3
BNSF SD40-2 1616
Title:  BNSF SD40-2 1616
Description:  BNSF SD40-2 1616 working a local at Las Cruces NM
Photo Date:  8/29/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:41:30 PM
Location:  Las Cruces, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1616(SD40-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Local Working Las Cruces
Title:  Local Working Las Cruces
Description:  Two six-axle units work local freight at Las Cruces NM on a Friday morning.
Photo Date:  8/29/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:41:48 PM
Location:  Las Cruces, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1467(SD60M)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
UP Stacks in New Mexico
Title:  UP Stacks in New Mexico
Description:  A trio of UP SD70Ms run a double stack train eastbound out of Alamogordo NM with the Sacramento Mountains as a backdrop.
Photo Date:  8/29/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:42:18 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 5036(SD70M)
Views:  144   Comments: 2
First Train of the Morning
Title:  First Train of the Morning
Description:  7:10 AM in Alamogordo NM as a westbound UP stack train calls on the town on its way to El Paso.
Photo Date:  8/30/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:42:46 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8524(SD70ACe)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
DPU and Signal; Alamogordo
Title:  DPU and Signal; Alamogordo
Description:  UP 8831 pushes a stack train towards El Paso early on a Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  8/30/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:43:11 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 8831(SD70AH)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
Caboose and Blue Burro
Title:  Caboose and Blue Burro
Description:  The local tourist office along US54 at Carrizozo NM; a former Burlington Route car with heavily modified windows. The UP (former SP) main is about two blocks away.
Photo Date:  8/30/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:43:35 PM
Location:  Las Cruces, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  190   Comments: 0
Former Holloman AFB line, Alamogordo NM
Title:  Former Holloman AFB line, Alamogordo NM
Description:  The Air Force operated a roughly five mile stretch of trackage from Holloman AFB to Alamogordo NM for many years before ceasing ops in the 1980s. The tracks actually on the base were removed years ago but the remainder of the line were only recently pulled up, as shown in this view looking west from Lavelle Road.
Photo Date:  8/30/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:44:05 PM
Location:  Alamogordo, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
UP 6250, Still in Gray
Title:  UP 6250, Still in Gray
Description:  UP GE 6250 leads an eastbound stacktrain at Oscura NM on the road's Carrizozo Sub.
Photo Date:  8/30/2014  Upload Date: 8/30/2014 5:44:53 PM
Location:  Oscura, NM
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 6250(AC44CW)
Views:  118   Comments: 0


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