Lubbock & Western 3538

Plainview, Texas

Cimarron Valley Railroad 4052

Hugoton, Kansas

Country Railroading

 

My girlfriend called across the tracks, "Did it stop?" "No, just slow." Having spent the last 15 years or so chasing trains around the speedy Northeast Corridor and Southern Transcon, I could understand her confusion. But this was Hugoton, Kansas and the trains on the Cimarron Valley Railroad take their good old time.
We had passed the train on the road, a little ways back, and pulled up to the next grade crossing. I lit a cigarette, finished it, rechecked my camera settings, rechecked the sun, tried a few more angles, made sure the cigarette was out, stared at a horse, and finally, the train.

BNSF 5211 at Clovis, New Mexico Yard

Tucumcari Switches

Union Pacific, Guadalupe County, New Mexico

Steam Switcher, Clovis, NM

BNSF Vaughn, NM

Union Pacific Tucumcari Line CP 755 Duran, NM

The Tucumcari Line, between Carrizozo, NM and Dalhart, TX is one of the most scenic I've ever visited. Above are some shots around the village of Duran. Long ago the town boasted railroad shops and a roundhouse, but those are long gone, and today the trains just roll through. Duran is 15 miles south of Vaughn on U.S. 54.

Belen Cutoff MP 672

1944 steam locomotive almost ready to roll again

Albuquerque railroad shops c1944, Jack Delano/Library of Congress.

(abqjournal.com) A steam whistle was blowing, a bell clanging, a jazz trio playing and scores of people cheering as the big, dark lady known as Santa Fe 2926 emerged at a slow, stately pace from her new house. Continued

Welcome to Texas

AGPX 6914 (former CN), Lariat, Texas

 

Leaving Littlefield

BNSF 7141 (ES44C4), pulls out of Littlefield, Texas on a somewhat sunny spring day.

Ferromex 4664

On the BNSF, between Clovis and Portales, NM.

Southbound with the Southwestern Railroad

Southwestern 6997 southbound between Clovis and Portales, NM. Notice the Zia symbol on the nose of the locomotive.

Passing the Elevator

BNSF 7787 (GE ES44DC), passes Martin Farms & Grain on a rainy New Mexico Evening. 

BNSF 9285

Hereford, TX

 

Both SD70ACe

Passing Train

Somewhere between Bovina and Hereford.

BNSF 2829

BNSF 2829 (GP39M) and 2348 (GP38-2) lounging around Hereford, TX.
Canon EOS 50D, EF-S 17-55 lens.