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Title: |
What we came for |
Description: |
The Southwest Limited was about 45 minutes late leaving Albuquerque, and took about 45 minutes to reach us. Here it is approaching after popping out from behind a hillside. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/21/2023 6:25:57 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
54 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Going away and another eastbound |
Description: |
I turned to get a going away shot of the power as the stack passed, to find another eastbound creeping up |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:25:52 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
45 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Different perspective |
Description: |
The vertical framing of Amtrak #3 brings in the signals and the Sandias in the distance. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 3:59:40 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
53 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Pouring it on |
Description: |
The engineer notches out as he passes through the interlocking. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/21/2023 6:27:04 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
57 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Home signal |
Description: |
The Southwest blasts by the eastbound home signals |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/21/2023 6:28:42 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
83 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Close up |
Description: |
Wider angle view of #3 as it passes my position. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:00:54 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
52 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Amtrak and a waiting stack |
Description: |
Amtrak #3 has passed me, and now meets a waiting eastbound stack train as it enters the grade separation to the west. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:03:54 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) |
Views: |
33 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
You can see a lot |
Description: |
One thing about the view out west is that it is panoramic. A wide view of Amtraks Southwest Chief and a waiting eastbound stack shows the vastness of the region. The south track, the one Amtrak is on, has a slightly better grade, at .6% than the north track, which is 1% between here and Suwanee, a dozen miles to the west. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:07:49 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
39 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Shimmering in the sun |
Description: |
The eastbound stack is still holding on the north track, waiting for a signal that will eventually come, as the heat of the afternoon sun rises from the baked landscape. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:44:39 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
22 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
And a westbound |
Description: |
A westbound stack appears around the hill, and we have another train to roll by. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:13:15 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7409(ES44DC) BNSF 6630(ES44C4) BNSF 7479(ES44DC) |
Views: |
50 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Splitting the boards |
Description: |
The stack train rolls between the eastbound home signals at Rio Puerco. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:19:26 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7409(ES44DC) BNSF 6630(ES44C4) BNSF 7479(ES44DC) |
Views: |
76 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
DPU away |
Description: |
The DPU on the westbound stack rolls past us and into the sun. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:29:07 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 8225(ES44C4) |
Views: |
44 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
DPU and big sky |
Description: |
Montana does not have a lock on big sky, the state nickname notwithstanding. New Mexico has equally big skies, and the DPU of this westbound roll away beneath them, toward Arizona and the west coast. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:35:20 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 8225(ES44C4) |
Views: |
47 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Going nowhere |
Description: |
The home signal for eastbound moves at Rio Puerco is all red. The stack behind us isnt going anywhere for a while. We had to get back to get my wife and head for dinner, so with nothing in the offing, headed back to the house in Belen. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:46:36 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
32 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Long tangent |
Description: |
As we crossed the tracks, I grabbed a shot down the straight track toward the waiting train. Well be back in two days, for more Amtrak and BNSF action. |
Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/24/2023 4:53:24 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
24 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Waiting on Amtrak |
Description: |
We knew Amtrak 4 was five hours late, so were anticipating its arrival. So was the crew on this westbound stack, comprised of JB Hunt and Amazon containers, waiting here at the westbound home signal. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 4:55:42 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
32 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Straight on |
Description: |
A more nose on shot of the train, note the high green on the north track for Amtrak. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 4:58:35 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
44 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Underway |
Description: |
The stack starts moving, passing between the signals at Rio Puerco |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:00:43 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
38 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Unexpected |
Description: |
Amtrak has a tracker that allows the user to see the locations of all the trains in its system. Two days after our first visit to Rio Puerco, the tracker showed eastbound #4 as five hours late. This was unexpected, but allowed me to get a shot of the train as it raced toward Albuquerque late in the afternoon. Here it is, rolling past on the north track with the same power it had going west two days earlier. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/25/2023 6:13:09 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
47 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
Wide view, big sky |
Description: |
I shortened up on the lens as the train passed, getting a big hunk of sky as it rolled by. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/25/2023 6:18:33 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
Views: |
81 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
The meet |
Description: |
When we arrived at Rio Puerco, the stack train in the distance was holding on the south track beyond the interlocking. Amtrak has crossed over to the north track, and is now on its way to the Glorieta Sub at Isleta, and beyond to Albuquerque. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/25/2023 6:24:57 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
50 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Clearing the interlocking |
Description: |
The stack now splits the eastbound home signals, gaining speed as it heads west. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:02:26 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
41 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Pretty sky |
Description: |
The westbound stack rolls past under a pretty sky. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:21:43 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
47 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Two stacks |
Description: |
Not an uncommon sight on the Transcon. The westbound stacks containers roll away from us, as the next eastbound comes up at a crawl. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:28:22 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC) BNSF 8198(ES44C4) |
Views: |
45 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Crawling up |
Description: |
The eastbound we saw in the distance crawls up to the crossing, as he waits for the signal to clear. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:32:17 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC) BNSF 8198(ES44C4) |
Views: |
40 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Doesnt take long |
Description: |
As the stack stops to keep clear of the crossing, we see that it doesnt take long for things to back up on the Transcon, as another eastbound appears in the distance. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:35:41 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC) BNSF 8198(ES44C4) |
Views: |
39 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Oil DPU |
Description: |
The oil train had a two unit DPU, seen here rolling away west. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:57:53 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6900(ES44C4) BNSF 3927(ET44C4) |
Views: |
66 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Long look |
Description: |
The oil train rolls into the distance in a telephoto view. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 5:59:51 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6900(ES44C4) BNSF 3927(ET44C4) |
Views: |
48 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Meeting two |
Description: |
The oil train rolls away, and we see the two eastbounds lined up. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:03:16 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6900(ES44C4) BNSF 3927(ET44C4) |
Views: |
62 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Now were getting somewhere |
Description: |
The dispatcher has cleared the signal on the north track, and the first eastbound will be on its way shortly |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:05:47 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
31 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Away we go |
Description: |
The first eastbound starts up, the interloper UP unit giving up some smoke as it starts to move. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:08:01 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC) BNSF 8198(ES44C4) |
Views: |
46 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Rolling through the boards |
Description: |
The eastbound stack now building speed, rolls through the eastbound signals at Rio Puerco. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:10:24 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC) BNSF 8198(ES44C4) |
Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Full view |
Description: |
The entire eastbound stack, all 84 platforms and TOFC of it, rolls toward Belen, its tail end just clearing the westbound signals. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:12:27 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC) BNSF 8198(ES44C4) |
Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Short freight |
Description: |
The next player in the show was this short 62 car mixed freight that came west. It had a Ferromex unit riding the rocking chair of this three unit consist. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:15:18 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7934(ES44C4) FXE 4046(SD70ACe) BNSF 4675(C44-9W) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Splitting the signals, and better than stop |
Description: |
The westbound splits the eastbound home signals. Meanwhile, the signal on the north track has now cleared to approach. And the clouds are screwing with us!! |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/26/2023 6:18:24 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7934(ES44C4) FXE 4046(SD70ACe) BNSF 4675(C44-9W) |
Views: |
69 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
And the wide view |
Description: |
A close up wider angle shows the power more completely, if in the shadow of the clouds now setting in. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:11:07 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7934(ES44C4) FXE 4046(SD70ACe) BNSF 4675(C44-9W) |
Views: |
48 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
The second eastbound arrives |
Description: |
The eastbound train we saw in the distance now reaches our position, arriving with a surprise, a unit I have seen before. Second in consist is the KCS SD 70ACe class unit, 4000, along with two BNSF friends, pulling 163 stack platforms toward the midwest. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:34:56 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7140(ES44C4) KCS 4000(SD70ACe) BNSF 6992(ES44C4) |
Views: |
67 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Taking the signal |
Description: |
Going away shot of the eastbound, taking the home signal at Rio Puerco. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:39:01 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7140(ES44C4) KCS 4000(SD70ACe) BNSF 6992(ES44C4) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Brief glimpse |
Description: |
The eastbound rolls through a patch of sun as it passes the westbound home signals |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:29:53 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7140(ES44C4) KCS 4000(SD70ACe) BNSF 6992(ES44C4) |
Views: |
59 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Another westbound |
Description: |
Yet another westbound stack train rolls through the signals at Rio Puerco. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:42:06 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7327(ES44DC) BNSF 7128(ES44C4) |
Views: |
38 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Close up |
Description: |
The angle gives a better look at the power consist on the westbound. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:43:50 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7327(ES44DC) BNSF 7128(ES44C4) |
Views: |
40 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Westbound |
Description: |
Amtrak 3, more or less on time, rolls through the eastbound signls at Rio Puerco |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/25/2023 6:29:54 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 192(P42DC) AMTK 181(P42DC) |
Views: |
47 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Closer |
Description: |
The Chief rolls past our position at the crossing, headed for Gallup. The late afternoon clouds have started to move in, and well be dodging shadows the rest of the day. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/25/2023 6:34:02 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 192(P42DC) AMTK 181(P42DC) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Too bad for the shadows |
Description: |
We moved our position as it was getting to be dinner time, and we wanted to head back before it got too late. We decided that we wanted to get this shot of a train coming around the big curve about three miles to the east, even in the clouds had moved in. It definitely works for a late afternoon shot, and Ill do it whenever I get back this way. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:48:49 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7770(ES44DC) BNSF 7138(ES44C4) BNSF 5389(C44-9W) |
Views: |
34 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Right in front |
Description: |
The train is now fully into the curve, the power right in front of me. Definitely a good westbound afternoon shot!! |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:52:13 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7770(ES44DC) BNSF 7138(ES44C4) BNSF 5389(C44-9W) |
Views: |
35 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Hidden Mountain |
Description: |
The westbound stack goes away from us, with hidden mountain in the background. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:45:49 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7770(ES44DC) BNSF 7138(ES44C4) BNSF 5389(C44-9W) |
Views: |
35 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Leased DPU |
Description: |
A CEFX lease unit brings up the rear of the westbound stack, with the not so hidden Hidden Mountain in the background. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 11/27/2023 5:56:46 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
CEFX 1051(AC44CW) |
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49 Comments: 3 |
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