Two Santa Fe Dash 8-40BWs led by ATSF 559 bookend a pair of BN SD40-2s on a westbound intermodal train headed out of Abo Canyon on its way to Belen, NM. It's 2.5 years into BNSF, but you would not... (more)

A spring 1998 trip to Abo Canyon led to an interesting mix of power in the early BNSF era. Here a westbound stack train exits Abo with a mix of BN/Santa Fe and BNSF power. The two blue and yellow ... (more)

The conductor rides Ferromex 4080 back into the Belen yard to couple on to their train, which they will take north to Albuquerque.

A New Mexico thunderstorm builds in the background as refrigerator cars of California produce, freshly iced, await a crew change on July 28, 1967 at Belen, New Mexico. Led by the 818, two hefty Al... (more)

The Saturday before Easter, 42 years ago, my father asked the Belen yardmaster if we could take some photos around the diesel service area. A short time later we were thrilled to be in the cab of... (more)

BNSF 7151 leading a long EB Intermodal into the Belen yard

Two Santa Fe Superfleet units lead a BNSF GP60M and a blue and yellow hood unit east into Abo Canyon with a Maersk stack train. The GP60M gives away the fact it is now BNSF, but for the moment we ... (more)

Starting in 1969, Santa Fe bought twenty GE U23C’s for service on unit sulfur trains in Texas, where their hefty pulling power could be put to good use. But by May, 1973, when the 7904 and three... (more)

A BNSF freight of carload and vehicle traffic bends around the curve east of Belen, NM and approaches Abo Canyon with a nice variety of early merger color. At this time, none of the units had been... (more)

A westbound Q-train exits Abo Canyon with a nice mix of ATSF and BN color on the point. It's April 1998 and the BNSF heritage I scheme has already been replaced by Heritage II. However this train ... (more)

A few miles east of Belen, NM, we see BNSF #6598 leading a westbound double stack train through the vast openness that is central New Mexico.

4 FXE units are on the point of a southbound Belen to El Paso mixed freight at South Belen.

While a yard job switches cars in the background, the conductor on Ferromex 4080 waits for a green signal before giving the ok to back the power into the Belen yard.

Another colorful set of road power awaits assignment at BNSF's busy Belen yard.