Passenger Trains > Amtrak on the High Plains

i drove from La Junta to Santa Rosa on November 3rd ,

i saw the westbound Amtrak at La Junta ,Raton  and Springer 

these are at La Junta a northbound coal load and Amtrak arriving at the depot  and a grab shot from the highway on the pass

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...seen passing the 705 milepost  ..near Springer NM



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/19 02:30 by bakersfielddave.

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the first photo is looking down grade towards Springer  at the approximte location of Robinson siding long since gone

some semaphores seen between Springer and Las Vegas NM  there were not many to be seen now



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/19 02:29 by bakersfielddave.

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arriving at La Junta,  then seen at a grade crossing a few miles south of here ,then arriving at Raton... much to the delight of an intending passenger

refer back to this post by westfalen who was traveling with me on vacation  who took video at Robinson



https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,4895975,4896693#msg-4896693
 

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Nice videos. The horn on that 52 sounds horrible...
 

Nice video! Yes that horn sounds "aweful"...
Thank you for sharing !!! :):):)

There are still about 40+ on the line starting eastbound at Cerrillos with quite a few being single intermediate signals. You just have to know where they are and some are pretty inaccessible even from the local roads. I rode east on #4 a couple of weeks ago in the Overland Trail lounge (now relocated to the east coast) and I pointed some of them out so photographers could get a picture out the rear door window. Riding back on Amtrak in the lounge they were much harder to spot as they went by fast.

Nice video...What happened to 8th car? 

perhaps that is the set consist since the new timetable for fall 2019/20