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Features

In every Issue

16 Model railroaders

06 Welcome

20 In the cab

08 Fares

22 Train collectibles

10 Weekday schedules 13 Weekend schedules 14 Route map and connections 24 Crossword puzzle (answers page 26) 25 Events calendar 26 All aboard

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six yeaRs and going stRong Welcome to the Rail Runner!

Effective transportation is vital to the well-being of a region and its citizens. As we mark another milestone this year – the six-yearanniversary of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express this past July – we see that one of the key components that has really brought us together as a region is the formation of the Rio Metro Regional Transit District and the implementation of commuter rail through the heart of the Rio Grande Valley.

As we quickly approach the six-million rider mark, we see that a lot has happened in those six short years. Perhaps one of our biggest accomplishments is getting a handle on the Rail Runner’s financial picture and trying to make the system sustainable into the future. Earlier this year, additional federal funding reduced the need for state participation in operating and maintenance costs, while allowing a full slate of weekend service to be restored to accommodate tourism through the cultural corridor.

I truly believe that is the direction we should go in next, wth the Rail Runner as the vehicle that connects New Mexico and our cultural corridor. We know what it can do for commuters, but we need to test its mettle in the tourism arena. There are so many incredible day trips and excursions throughout the central region where the train operates that I don’t think passengers will be disappointed.

It gives me great satisfaction to be part of an organization that is dedicated to identifying transportation alternatives and solutions for those living, working and recreating in Central New Mexico. I think the Rio Metro Board has done a very good job of making sure that our expenses are in line and that we run an efficient transit system. It is through maintaining a commonsense approach, and one that is fiscally responsible, that we will be able to make the Rail Runner sustainable as we move forward.

Here’s to six years growing strong — and many more ahead!

Larry Abraham Mayor, Village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque Chair of the Rio Metro Regional Transit District Board 6

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By D e n n i s J. C ar r o ll ph o to s B y k it t y le ake n

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train was chugging by the grain elevators when one of the coal cars began to teeter violently. Then it completely left the track.

Fortunately, Duane Schmitz was standing nearby at the time, and he carefully reached over the HO narrow-gauge track and righted the car, recoupling it to the cars fore and aft. “Sometimes these things happen,� said Schmitz, a member of the Belen Model Rail Club. The group of about 30 middle-aged and retired men who refuse to grow old, and who maintain youth through their model train hobby, plays mostly at the Harvey House Museum near the Belen Rail Runner station. There, they have laid out 800 or so feet of track over the past few years.

Most of the layout runs through an imaginary panorama of northcentral New Mexico, from Santa Fe in the distant north to Route 60 toward Socorro in the south, and from Mount Taylor in the west to the Manzano Mountains in the east.

To create the scenery and geography for the trains to pass through, Dawn MacDougall and Sandy Goldstein, members of the Belen Art League, used photographs as guides as they painted the mountains and other New Mexico features on the four walls of the largest room. The photos were taken by club member Jim McClure, a third 16

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If you go The Belen Model Railroad Club is open to the public from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sundays, and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. It is closed Mondays.

The Club will have its 2012 model train show from Sept. 18 to Oct. 20. The event is free of charge and open to the public from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. every day except Monday.

A special vendor exhibit will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. It includes a swap meet and sales of model trains, kits and railroad memorabilia.

For more information, visit bmrctrains.wordpress.com.

Instructions for reaching the museum by both car and Rail Runner are on the site. The Harvey House Museum phone number is 505-861-0581.

generation railroad man on real railroads.

The generally bright, sun-infused mural includes a thunderstorm over Santa Fe and fluffy clouds near Acoma Mesa’s Sky City church.

Mount Taylor casts its giant shadow toward Grants, and El Cerro de Los Lunas summit juts up near Tome-Adelino in Valencia County.

Much of the geography tracks along with what is actually visible from Interstate 25 and the Rail Runner Express route from Santa Fe to Belen.

“The guys got more than they were expecting,” said Goldstein.

“They thought we were just going to do some kind of line drawing.

Instead they got a full dimensional painting with shadowing and everything.”

She said that at one point, they had to stop and redo parts of the mural because they didn’t have the light coming from the same direction. It took 40 hours to complete, and is painted with acrylics. “We had a spray bottle of water in one hand and a paint brush in the other.”

MacDougall also gave the club members a couple of lessons in how to mix and match colors, so they could “blend their work on the table with what we had done on the wall. They caught on pretty quickly.”

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engaged in a dog fight over the Manzanos. “Sometimes we just put in things that we think would be interesting,” said Schmitz.

By operating a series of control panels in the various rooms, several club members at once can guide their trains, including a model of the Rail Runner, past sites and scenery, imagined and real.

One detail has a bungee jumper dangling from a trestle bridge, just around a bend from a waddle of penguins frolicking on an ice floe.

Over time, the club has acquired 250 to 300 cars and dozens of engines that its members can couple together to form trains. They then send them through the four rooms past rural and small town settings, including those grain elevators, water towers topped with blinking lights, train depots, a farm, an ice house, a Veterans Memorial Park complete with a miniature tank, a lake with campers, and stockyards. The towns generally represent what you might see in the communities of Belen, Clovis, El Paso and Socorro. For added realism, Schmitz occasionally paints some graffiti on cars.

The trains climb Switchback Mountain, zip through tunnels and chug past shop fronts landscaped with colored pipe-cleaner trees.

Nearby, tiny crews inspect tiny storm drains. “I put them in there because that’s what I used to do,” said Schmitz, a former city worker in Albuquerque Much of the materials and cars are bought at model train swap meets, an occasional flea market, and hobby shops. Model railroading is not necessarily an inexpensive endeavor, though. A hundred-dollar engine is considered a bargain. One that has a horn or mimics the noises of a real traveling diesel can easily go for $150 to $200.

With all of the cars, engines and scenery – not to mention the tracks, electrical wiring, houses, stores and whatnot – club member George Winters, once an electrical contractor, estimates the total cost of the whole setup at, “Well, let’s just say it’s more than $20,000.”

He said the club raises money for the display through dues, donations, a vendor show in January, and swap meets during its twice-yearly presentations in the museum’s showroom. There the club assembles a scaled-down 40 x 20 foot version of the four-room setup and leaves it up for a month.

Schmitz said the Harvey House, and its railroad layout, has been growing in popularity in recent years. “It’s really the thing to see in Belen.”

Take the Rail Runner to Albuquerque!

Upcoming Albuquerque Events Hottest Weekend in Albuquerque September 15-16 - celebrating salsa & chile

Albuquerque Hot Chocolate 15k/5k Run September 29

Day of the Tread Bike/Walk/Run October 28

¡Globalquerque! World Music Festival September 21-22

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta® October 6-14

Weems International Artfest November 9-11

ISEA 2012: Machine Wilderness September 2012-January 2013

Rio Grande Arts & Crafts Festivals October 5-14 & November 23-25

Holiday Shop & Strolls December 6 & 7

10th Annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival September 28-October 7

Disney’s e Lion King October 2-28

Gildan New Mexico Bowl December 15

For more information on these events and a complete list of Albuquerque events, please visit:

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Just off the Rail Runner stop at the Alvarado Transportation Center, you'll find bustling nightlife along Central Avenue (Route 66), including many nightclubs, theaters, restaurants and events.

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A different kind of cAb ride I n s I d e a R a Il Ru n n eR’ s co n t Ro l Ro o m

By D e n n i s J. C ar r o ll

It didn’t look like he was going to make it.

The young man, dressed all in black, was running directly toward Rail Runner Express Train 511, which had already begun to pull away from the platform at the South Capitol station on its early afternoon return trip to Albuquerque.

But he was in luck: he had caught the eye of engineer Drake Davis, who lifted his right hand off the throttle. “We’ll hold it for him,” Davis said. “He’s putting in some effort.”

Davis was one of two engineers assigned to the 511 this particular afternoon, pulling the Rail Runner “lunch train,” which brings Albuquerquians to Santa Fe for a morning of shopping, gallery browsing, a visit to the farmer’s market and perhaps an early lunch on the Plaza.

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the Santa Fe Depot – carries only one engineer. Another had been added for this trip, so the assigned engineer could talk with a reporter about what’s involved with operating a train, without being distracted by having to do what’s involved with operating a train.

Phillis Worthy, who had been assigned engine 109 for the day, hunched down in the well between Davis in the engineer’s seat and the reporter in the “fireman’s seat” — the second seat in a diesel locomotive. The term is left over from the days when a fireman would shovel coal into the firebox of a steam locomotive.

The chair, Worthy said, is now used mainly by the occasional federal railroad inspector, supervisor or member of a Rail Runner crew scouting for problems with the tracks.

The interior of the cab is relatively uncluttered. The engineer’s operating console (with a throttle, “reverser,” and hand brake controls) is at the front right. The fireman’s seat is to the left. A computer screen that can warn of problems is on the wall to the rear.

As a safety precaution, the cab is also equipped with visual and audio signals that the engineer must respond to every so often. Otherwise, the train will stop automatically.

During a trip there is a fair amount of radio chatter between the engineer and the conductor about conditions at each station.

There also is dialogue between the engineer and the dispatcher in Albuquerque concerning track conditions and the status and locations of other trains along the line.

The Rail Runner’s 3,600-horsepower push-pull diesel-electric locomotives are built by Motive Power out of Boise, Idaho, and if opened up full throttle can hurl down the tracks at more than 100 miles per hour. However, Rail Runner trains are limited to 79 miles per hour. No matter how tempting it might be to open her up and see what she can do, “If we were to go faster than (79),” Worthy said, “the train would automatically stop.”

Safety first, always.

Top 10 besT Things abouT riding in The cab 10. The conductor is not likely to bother you for the $8 fare.

9. Free bottles of water.

8. The views out of the windshield are spectacular, as the train gobbles up mile after mile of New Mexico desert scenery — noticeably greener now after recent rains.

7. Being able to call out the warning light signals to the engineer. (Everyone riding in the cab is expected to repeat the signal call; on this trip all were “clear.”)

6. Waving — to little boys on their dad’s shoulders at the stations, to kids and the occasional waving adults in cars along Interstate 25 and at signal crossings.

5. Blowing the horn (well, you can ask).

4. Asking the engineer if she ever hit a cow. (Yes — two. But that is less likely to happen now, since the pueblos through which the trains run have built track fences.)

3. Managing to climb down the engine’s five steps backwards without actually falling out of the cab.

2. Closing your eyes and just feeling and hearing the trip, from the sudden blasts of the horn to the clanging crossing signals. You move to the rocking rhythm of the desert leviathan as it sometimes crawls, sometimes speeds across arroyos, through centuries-old native farmlands, past bosques and through villages replete with New Mexico history.

1. Knowing that no matter what else is going on in your life, at least for the time spent heading down to Albuquerque, you were the king of the tracks and one cool dude.

—Dennis J. Carroll

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Train Treasures CoLLeCTing TrAin memorAbiLiA

By Cr a ig S mit h

Riding trains is a treat for most people. Whether it’s a commuter line like the Rail Runner, a regional railway, or one that crosses a continent, it carries excitement, eagerness and a sense of adventure.

But some folks not only enjoy a trip but eat, breathe, and live railways. Many of them collect items that show off their love of locomotives and just about every other aspect of trains.

Scale-model train hobbyists are perhaps the best known in this category, but there are many others who specialize in unusual or odd corners of rail history. Some of them even fill their houses and storage sheds with train treasures.

For this genre of collector, the goods can range from the tiniest part of a locomotive engine to special stamp issues commemorating trains; from ticket stubs to special lapel buttons or printed materials; and from uniforms and service badges to samples of different rail spikes.

Dinner is serveD

You’re reading this on the rail runner, probably, so don’t forget that the rr has plenty of memorabilia of its own available on the website www.nmrailrunnerstore.com/.

There are calendars, caps, shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, and pins and patches for just about every stop on the line. There are items geared to kids, including a wooden rail runner toy train and a wooden train whistle, as well as clothing. The collection also includes a poster, a mouse pad, lanyards, a fleece blanket, a car license plate, a keychain, a Christmas ornament, a briefcase-type bag, and an assortment of beverage mugs to suit every commuter’s taste. Just the thing for your special rail fan’s next birthday, anniversary, or office party. And don’t forget to get something for yourself, as well.

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In the Midwest and here in the Southwest, many aficionados concentrate their search on the storied Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe line. One collector I know of has cabinet after cabinet full of Santa Fe – and especially Super Chief – dining car place settings. Coffee pots and cups and saucers.

Thermoses, tea sets, and ashtrays. Relish trays, butter plates, and ice cream bowls.

The trove includes not only original pieces designed by Fred Harvey architect and decorator Mary Colter, but dinnerware from other lines, and some modern reproductions. He also has specialty items from some of the deluxe accommodations on the Santa Fe, including the famed Turquoise Room, a private dining section that could seat up to 12 lucky passengers for lunch or dinner.

Reproductions of these china sets are widely available now for fairly moderate prices, but original pieces in top condition can go for thousands of dollars. Be advised!

The Lure of ADverTisemenTs Other people are drawn to the tens of thousands of colorful train ads that peppered magazines during the 1930s through the 1960s, from Time and Life to Look and National Geographic. They advertised trains’ speed, safety, and comfort, as well as touting the fantastic

destinations you could reach in just a day or two. Among interesting local subsets are those featuring the Native American guides and artists who used to ride the Super Chief through the Southwest and tell riders about the history and geography of the land.

Framed or bound, these ads are beloved by collectors as design accent pieces. But some aficionados are content simply to have them safely tucked away in portfolios, just like some stamp collectors keep their treasures away from prying hands.

Timetables, route maps, station pictures or drawings, informative brochures, and prints or original paintings of train subjects figure in here as well.

Old Beauties On exhiBit On a broader scale, cities and municipalities often put old trains on display, including in Northern New Mexico. There’s the Santa Fe steam engine and coal car consist, number 5030, over in Salvador Perez Park in Santa Fe. In Albuquerque, Santa Fe 2926 stood for long in Coronado Park. It’s now under restoration by the New Mexico Steam Locomotive and Railroad Historical Society, with hopes of finding a permanent home over in the Albuquerque Railyard.

Other old locos are on public display in Clovis and Las Vegas.

The numbers game

If you’re not quite sure about starting off as a railroad memorabilia collector, but would like to be able to learn more about the subject, fret not. According to the website railmuseums.com, there are 293 such institutions in North America, including three in New Mexico. There’s the previously mentioned New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society (nmslrhs.org/, 505-246-2926, 33 8th St. NW, Albuquerque). Also in Albuquerque, the Wheels Transportation Museum is working toward getting established in the old train yard sheds and buildings (www. wheelsmuseum.org/).

And it’s worth a trip to Alamogordo to visit the Toy Train Depot (toytraindepot. homestead.com, 991 N. White Sands Blvd., 1-888-207-3564). It offers more than 8,000 items of railroad memorabilia to see, plus model trains from scale Z to the regular 4-feet 8-inch national gauge — full-size, in other words. A 16-inch narrow gauge train can be ridden on the grounds.

let’s not forget another set of collecting specialists: the numbers people. these are train spotters whose mission in life is to see and record the i.d. numbers of every freight car, engine, or passenger car they can, as made by different companies and run by different lines. they will travel all over the country, from the big eastern rail hubs to Chicago and Gallup and Kansas City, and to rural parts of the West, to lie in wait for long freights and fill in some blanks in their journals. and of course, there are people who collect train trips – who make it their pleasure and business to travel places by train, or to go somewhere just to be able to take a short line or a restored old narrow gauge steam train. locally, that might include the Cumbres & toltec railway (www.cumbrestoltec.com/) that travels in the Rockies between new Mexico and Colorado, the durangosilverton line in Colorado (www. durangotrain.com) and the santa Fe southern Railway, which offers excursion and specialty runs between santa Fe and lamy (www.sfsr.com).

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“I love running. It is my life,” said the 31-year-old marathoner. And these days, Lagat spends a lot of time doing just that, between training for marathons and chasing her 7-year-old daughter.

Recently, Lagat took top honors in the Inaugural Rail Runner Run and Bike Tour. She competed in the 5K component of the event, and crossed the finish line in about 18 minutes.

“I had a good race,” Lagat said. “It came at a time when I needed to get my speed in.” What she means by that, is that she’s training for the Twin Cities Marathon coming up in October in Minnesota, and she needs to get in some shorter-distance races for speed to keep her in top form.

Lagate came to the United States on a runner’s scholarship to the University of Toledo in Ohio. After graduating seven years ago, she moved to New Mexico to take advantage of the great weather and high altitude that makes Albuquerque an ideal spot for training. “I can still get outside here in the winters because they are generally mild. This climate allows me to get in my 90 miles of running per week pretty much year-round.”

Yes, you read that right: 90 miles.

In 2009, Lagat took first place in “Grandma’s Marathon,” which takes place each year in Duluth, Minn. She placed third in that same race in 2010 and second last year, with a time of 2 hours, 31 minutes.

Lagat is not the only runner in the family. On the day she ran in the Rail Runner Run, her brother, 37-year-old Bernard Lagat, placed fourth in the 5,000-meter event in this year’s Summer Olympics – his third time as an Olympic competitor.

“He missed a medal by one spot,” said Lagat, “but he did bring home a bronze for Kenya in the 2000 Olympic games, and a gold for the U.S. in the 1,500-meter event in Athens in 2008.”

While his proud sister is setting her sights on her next big race, she is every bit as thrilled to have won the Inaugural Rail Runner Run – and she was happy to have the chance to do it.

“I had fun,” she said. “I wasn’t sure how I was going to do, but by and

by I kept picking up my pace and before I knew it, I could see the finish line. It was a good run.”

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)0)0) current exhibits )0)0) Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules Through December 30, 2012

Paintings, bronzes and polychrome ceramic vessels demonstrate the multidimensionality of the artist’s dazzling work.

Woven Identities Through April 1, 2014

Exquisite baskets woven by artists representing 60 cultural groups in six cultural areas of western North America: the Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, California, the Northwest Coast, and the Arctic.

They Wove For Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets

The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery

Through March 4, 2013

Ongoing

The great pride and skill the Diné take in adorning their horses is revealed in this display of weavings both everyday and fanciful.

Works from the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona are presented here, representing the evolution of community traditions.

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum Hill, Santa Fe, New Mexico | (505) 476-1250 | indianartsandculture.org |

Top: Margarete Bagshaw, Ancestral Procession, 2010. Bottom, left to right: Western Apache jar, c. 1900, photo by Addison Doty. Diné tapestry- and diagonal twill-weave single saddle blanket, 1880–9, photo by Blair Clark. Tesuque polychrome jar, 1890, photo by Blair Clark.