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20 In the cab

22 Train collectibles

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06 Welcome

08 Fares

10 Weekday schedules

13 Weekend schedules

14 Route map and connections

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six yeaRs and going stRongWelcome 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-year-anniversary of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express this past July – we see that one of the key components that has really brought ustogether as a region is the formation of the Rio Metro Regional Transit District and the implementation of commuter rail through the heartof 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 biggestaccomplishments is getting a handle on the Rail Runner’s financial picture and trying to make the system sustainable into the future. Earlierthis year, additional federal funding reduced the need for state participation in operating and maintenance costs, while allowing a full slateof 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 culturalcorridor. We know what it can do for commuters, but we need to test its mettle in the tourism arena. There are so many incredible daytrips 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 forthose living, working and recreating in Central New Mexico. I think the Rio Metro Board has done a very good job of making sure that ourexpenses are in line and that we run an efficient transit system. It is through maintaining a commonsense approach, and one that is fiscallyresponsible, 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!

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The Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train waschugging by the grain elevators when one of the coalcars began to teeter violently. Then it completely leftthe track.Fortunately, Duane Schmitz was standing nearby at the time, and hecarefully reached over the HO narrow-gauge track and righted thecar, recoupling it to the cars fore and aft.

“Sometimes these things happen,” said Schmitz, a member ofthe Belen Model Rail Club. The group of about 30 middle-agedand retired men who refuse to grow old, and who maintain youththrough their model train hobby, plays mostly at the Harvey HouseMuseum near the Belen Rail Runner station. There, they have laidout 800 or so feet of track over the past few years.

Most of the layout runs through an imaginary panorama of north-central New Mexico, from Santa Fe in the distant north to Route 60toward Socorro in the south, and from Mount Taylor in the west tothe 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 ArtLeague, used photographs as guides as they painted the mountainsand other New Mexico features on the four walls of the largestroom. The photos were taken by club member Jim McClure, a third

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generation railroad man on real railroads.The generally bright, sun-infused mural includes a thunderstormover Santa Fe and fluffy clouds near Acoma Mesa’s Sky City church.Mount Taylor casts its giant shadow toward Grants, and El Cerro deLos Lunas summit juts up near Tome-Adelino in Valencia County.Much of the geography tracks along with what is actually visiblefrom Interstate 25 and the Rail Runner Express route from Santa Feto 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 andeverything.”

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

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

Inspired club members have also added their own bits ofimaginary spice to the mural, including a couple of passenger jetcutouts and what appear to be two World War II attack planes

engaged in a dog fight over the Manzanos. “Sometimes we just putin 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 amodel of the Rail Runner, past sites and scenery, imagined and real.One detail has a bungee jumper dangling from a trestle bridge, justaround a bend from a waddle of penguins frolicking on an ice floe.

Over time, the club has acquired 250 to 300 cars and dozens ofengines that its members can couple together to form trains. Theythen send them through the four rooms past rural and small townsettings, including those grain elevators, water towers toppedwith blinking lights, train depots, a farm, an ice house, a VeteransMemorial Park complete with a miniature tank, a lake with campers,and stockyards. The towns generally represent what you might seein the communities of Belen, Clovis, El Paso and Socorro. For addedrealism, Schmitz occasionally paints some graffiti on cars.

The trains climb Switchback Mountain, zip through tunnels andchug past shop fronts landscaped with colored pipe-cleaner trees.Nearby, tiny crews inspect tiny storm drains. “I put them in therebecause that’s what I used to do,” said Schmitz, a former city workerin Albuquerque

Much of the materials and cars are bought at model trainswap meets, an occasional flea market, and hobby shops. Modelrailroading is not necessarily an inexpensive endeavor, though. Ahundred-dollar engine is considered a bargain. One that has a hornor mimics the noises of a real traveling diesel can easily go for $150to $200.

With all of the cars, engines and scenery – not to mention thetracks, electrical wiring, houses, stores and whatnot – club memberGeorge Winters, once an electrical contractor, estimates thetotal 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 itstwice-yearly presentations in the museum’s showroom. There theclub assembles a scaled-down 40 x 20 foot version of the four-roomsetup and leaves it up for a month.

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

If you goThe Belen Model Railroad Club is open to the public from 1 to3 p.m. on Sundays, and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays throughSaturdays. It is closed Mondays.The Club will have its 2012 model train show from Sept. 18 toOct. 20. The event is free of charge and open to the public from12:30 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, kitsand railroad memorabilia.For more information, visit bmrctrains.wordpress.com.Instructions for reaching the museum by both car and RailRunner are on the site. The Harvey House Museum phonenumber is 505-861-0581.



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Take the Rail Runner to Albuquerque!

By Dennis J. Carroll

It didn’t look like he was going to make it.The young man, dressed all in black, was running directly towardRail Runner Express Train 511, which had already begun to pullaway from the platform at the South Capitol station on its earlyafternoon return trip to Albuquerque.

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

Davis was one of two engineers assigned to the 511 this particularafternoon, pulling the Rail Runner “lunch train,” which bringsAlbuquerquians to Santa Fe for a morning of shopping, gallerybrowsing, a visit to the farmer’s market and perhaps an early lunchon the Plaza.

Normally the train – which heads back south at 1:02 p.m. from

the Santa Fe Depot – carries only one engineer. Another hadbeen added for this trip, so the assigned engineer could talk with areporter about what’s involved with operating a train, without beingdistracted 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 seatand the reporter in the “fireman’s seat” — the second seat in a diesellocomotive. The term is left over from the days when a firemanwould shovel coal into the firebox of a steam locomotive.

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

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

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As a safety precaution, the cab is alsoequipped with visual and audio signalsthat the engineer must respond to everyso often. Otherwise, the train will stopautomatically.

During a trip there is a fair amount ofradio chatter between the engineer and theconductor about conditions at each station.There also is dialogue between the engineerand the dispatcher in Albuquerqueconcerning track conditions and the statusand locations of other trains along the line.

The Rail Runner’s 3,600-horsepowerpush-pull diesel-electric locomotives arebuilt by Motive Power out of Boise, Idaho,and if opened up full throttle can hurldown the tracks at more than 100 milesper hour. However, Rail Runner trains arelimited to 79 miles per hour. No matterhow tempting it might be to open her upand see what she can do, “If we were to gofaster than (79),” Worthy said, “the trainwould automatically stop.”

Safety first, always.

Top 10 besT Things abouT riding in The cab10. 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 ofNew 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 isexpected 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 occasionalwaving 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 ofthe cab.

2. Closing your eyes and just feeling and hearing the trip, from the sudden blasts of the hornto the clanging crossing signals. You move to the rocking rhythm of the desert leviathan as itsometimes 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 headingdown to Albuquerque, you were the king of the tracks and one cool dude.

—Dennis J. Carroll


TrainTreasures

By Craig Smith

Riding trains is a treat for most people. Whether it’s acommuter 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 liverailways. Many of them collect items that show off their love oflocomotives and just about every other aspect of trains.

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

For this genre of collector, the goods can range from thetiniest part of a locomotive engine to special stamp issuescommemorating trains; from ticket stubs to special lapel buttonsor printed materials; and from uniforms and service badges tosamples of different rail spikes.

Dinner is serveDIn the Midwest and here in the Southwest, many aficionadosconcentrate their search on the storied Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe line. One collector I know of has cabinet aftercabinet 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 fromother lines, and some modern reproductions. He also has specialtyitems from some of the deluxe accommodations on the Santa Fe,including the famed Turquoise Room, a private dining section thatcould seat up to 12 lucky passengers for lunch or dinner.

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

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

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

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

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By Craig Smith

Riding trains is a treat for most people. Whether it’s acommuter 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 liverailways. Many of them collect items that show off their love oflocomotives and just about every other aspect of trains.

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

For this genre of collector, the goods can range from thetiniest part of a locomotive engine to special stamp issuescommemorating trains; from ticket stubs to special lapel buttonsor printed materials; and from uniforms and service badges tosamples of different rail spikes.

Dinner is serveDIn the Midwest and here in the Southwest, many aficionadosconcentrate their search on the storied Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe line. One collector I know of has cabinet aftercabinet 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 fromYou’re reading this on the rail runner, probably, so don’t forget

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destinations you could reach in just a dayor two. Among interesting local subsets arethose featuring the Native American guidesand artists who used to ride the Super Chiefthrough the Southwest and tell riders aboutthe history and geography of the land.

Framed or bound, these ads are belovedby collectors as design accent pieces. Butsome aficionados are content simply tohave them safely tucked away in portfolios,just like some stamp collectors keeptheir treasures away from prying hands.Timetables, route maps, station pictures ordrawings, informative brochures, and printsor original paintings of train subjects figurein here as well.

Old Beauties On exhiBitOn a broader scale, cities and municipalitiesoften put old trains on display, includingin Northern New Mexico. There’s theSanta Fe steam engine and coal car consist,number 5030, over in Salvador Perez Parkin Santa Fe. In Albuquerque, Santa Fe2926 stood for long in Coronado Park. It’snow under restoration by the New MexicoSteam Locomotive and Railroad HistoricalSociety, with hopes of finding a permanenthome over in the Albuquerque Railyard.Other old locos are on public display inClovis and Las Vegas.

If you’re not quite sure about startingoff as a railroad memorabilia collector,but would like to be able to learn moreabout the subject, fret not. According tothe website railmuseums.com, there are293 such institutions in North America,including three in New Mexico. There’s thepreviously mentioned New Mexico SteamLocomotive & Railroad Historical Society(nmslrhs.org/, 505-246-2926, 33 8th St.NW, Albuquerque). Also in Albuquerque,the Wheels Transportation Museum isworking toward getting established in theold train yard sheds and buildings (www.wheelsmuseum.org/).

And it’s worth a trip to Alamogordo tovisit the Toy Train Depot (toytraindepot.homestead.com, 991 N. White Sands Blvd.,1-888-207-3564). It offers more than 8,000items of railroad memorabilia to see, plusmodel trains from scale Z to the regular4-feet 8-inch national gauge — full-size, inother words. A 16-inch narrow gauge traincan be ridden on the grounds.

The numbers gamelet’s not forget another set of collectingspecialists: the numbers people. theseare train spotters whose mission in lifeis to see and record the i.d. numbers ofevery freight car, engine, or passengercar they can, as made by differentcompanies and run by different lines.they will travel all over the country,from the big eastern rail hubs toChicago and Gallup and Kansas City,and to rural parts of the West, to lie inwait for long freights and fill in someblanks in their journals.

and of course, there are people whocollect train trips – who make it theirpleasure and business to travel placesby train, or to go somewhere just to beable to take a short line or a restoredold narrow gauge steam train. locally,that might include the Cumbres & toltecrailway (www.cumbrestoltec.com/) thattravels in the Rockies between newMexico and Colorado, the durango-silverton line in Colorado (www.durangotrain.com) and the santaFe southern Railway, which offersexcursion and specialty runs betweensanta Fe and lamy (www.sfsr.com).

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Everlyne Lagat has been running as long as she can remember. Infact, she grew up running in her native Kenya.

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

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

“I had a good race,” Lagat said. “It came at a time when I needed to getmy speed in.” Whatshe means by that,is that she’s trainingfor the Twin CitiesMarathon comingup in October inMinnesota, and sheneeds to get in someshorter-distance racesfor speed to keep her intop form.

Lagate came to theUnited States on arunner’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 andhigh altitude that makes Albuquerque an ideal spot for training. “I canstill get outside here in the winters because they are generally mild. Thisclimate allows me to get in my 90 miles of running per week prettymuch 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 in2010 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 theRail Runner Run, her brother, 37-year-old Bernard Lagat, placed fourthin the 5,000-meter event in this year’s Summer Olympics – his thirdtime as an Olympic competitor.

“He missed a medal by one spot,” said Lagat, “but he did bring homea 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 isevery bit as thrilled to have won the Inaugural Rail Runner Run – andshe 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 andby I kept picking up my pace and before I knew it, I could see the finishline. It was a good run.”

she means by that,is that she’s trainingfor the Twin CitiesMarathon comingup in October inMinnesota, and sheneeds to get in someshorter-distance racesfor speed to keep her intop form.

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Woven IdentitiesThrough 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.

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

They Wove For Horses: Diné Saddle BlanketsThrough March 4, 2013The great pride and skill the Diné take in adorning their horses is revealed in this display of weavings both everyday and fanciful.

The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern PotteryOngoing Works from the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona are presented here, representing the evolution of community traditions.

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.

Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules Through December 30, 2012 Paintings, bronzes and polychrome ceramic vessels demonstrate the multidimensionality of the artist’s dazzling work.

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