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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 69(P42DC) AMTK 154(P42DC) |
| Views: |
93 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coming from afar |
| Description: |
One of the things I wanted to do was get a shot of the Southwest Chief while in the Albuquerque area. The timing was good to catch it at Rio Puerco, about 35 miles west of town, and more convenient to my host, who lives in Belen. Plus, there was the added attraction of a scenic spot. The westbound Chief rolls toward Rio Puerco across the scrub, the Sandia Mountains looming in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:08:52 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Between the signals |
| Description: |
Amtrak #3 passes between the eastbound home signals at Rio Puerco. A few miles farther east, the line splits, the north track going to the Laguna Sub toward Albuquerque, the south track, the Gallup Sub, going to Belen, which carries almost all of the freight traffic. The dispatcher moved him to the south track at Dalies, 6 1/2 miles to the east, well see why in a moment. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:18:28 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
65 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Opening up |
| Description: |
The GEs open up the throttle, giving us a little smoke as they accelerate through the interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:24:34 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
67 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Pouring it on |
| Description: |
Its not a Santa Fe PA, but the two Amtrak GEs are doing a good impression as they notch out after passing Rio Puercos interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:37:28 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
64 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Close up view |
| Description: |
It seems almost pointless to use a wide angle view out west, the scenery is so vast. But this does offer a close up look at the six car Southwest Chief as it rolls on west, next stop Gallup, behind a pair of GEs |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2023 Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:29:59 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
74 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: |
101 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 69(P42DC) AMTK 154(P42DC) |
| Views: |
131 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
88 Comments: 1 |
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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 69(P42DC) AMTK 154(P42DC) |
| Views: |
86 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 69(P42DC) AMTK 154(P42DC) |
| Views: |
71 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: |
78 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak #4 |
| Description: |
I did not expect to see the eastbound Chief, since it was scheduled into Albuquerque before noon, and we usually lingered over breakfast. On the 18th, the tracking site showed it was delayed out in Arizona, and was about five hours late. We went out to Rio Puerco to shoot freights, with the thought in mind we might catch it. We did; it showed about 30 minutes after we arrived, amidst a parade of seven freights. Heres #4 approaching Rio Puerco on the north track. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:50:01 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
66 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A little closer |
| Description: |
The Chief closes in on our position at Rio Puerco behind the same two GEs it went west with two days prior, and six cars. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:54:15 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
83 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Big sky |
| Description: |
Montana doesnt have a lock on big sky. Theyre everywhere out here. Amtrak #4 rolls east under a tall cloud. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:55:57 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) |
| Views: |
85 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
114 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: |
111 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
The meet |
| Description: |
The Chief meets a westbound stack, holding on the south track. Hell disappear behind the stacker, and take the north track to Dalies, then the Glorieta Sub to Albuquerque. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/9/2023 6:03:36 AM |
| Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 154(P42DC) AMTK 69(P42DC) BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
137 Comments: 3 |
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