#stacktrain

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Eastbound at Thoreau

More action on the Atlantic & Pacific Charter, part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. We're now at Throeau, New Mexico, just a few miles east of the Continental Divide.

This is an eastbound stack train moving under the Highway 371 overpass, headed toward Belen. From there it will take the eponymous cutoff for points east.

Three image by Richard Koenig; taken April 6th 2026.

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[trainmaniac]

ATSF 947 mp876, Sias, NM. 4-28-1996 by JACK KUIPHOFF Via Flickr: AT&SF Santa Fe C41-8W #947 leads two other GE's with a westbound double stack, out of Abo Canyon at mp876, Sias, New Mexico. April 28, 1996 Jack D Kuiphoff photo

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GN Through the Blackfeet Nation

After visiting the Marias Pass area, I headed eastward and then south. Along the way I spotted this westbound stack train moving through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation at Browning. In the third shot one can see the peaks of Glacier National Park in the distance.

If you'd like to read about the Blackfeet you may do so here. For a condensed history of the Great Northern Railway, the only transcontinental railroad in the United States to NOT use public funds, you may do so here.

Three photographs by Richard Koenig; taken September 17th 2025.

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Out of the Mirage (Part Two of Four)

Here’s a going-away sequence of the southbound train on the former Rock Island line to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

The amount of merchandise one of these double-stack trains can haul is truly astounding (although many of these, if not all, could be empty—but my next post will balance this out).

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Out of the Mirage (Part One of Four)

Here’s a southbound train on the former Rock Island line to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

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Out of the Mirage (Part Four of Four)

Here’s the going-away sequence of the northbound train in the previous post. Again, this is the former Rock Island line down to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

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Out of the Mirage (Part Three of Four)

After the southbound in the previous two posts, I waited around a bit for this northbound train. Again, this is the former Rock Island line down to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.