[30] Some of the large trestles remain, still maintained as historic structures. The company's filing status is listed as Existence Expired and its File Number is 20602. (Enchantment State?) In 1976, the MP completely merged the TP. Subject Guides RBdigital Magazines Railroads have an important place in New Mexico's history. The railroad founders were also eager to found a major town that would persist after the railroad was completed; they formed the Alamogordo Improvement Company to develop the area,[31] making Alamogordo an early example of a planned community. (A growth that might have been Bernalillo's, originally slated as the site but passed up after a disagreement about the availability of land there.) [22] Eddy was able to convince Phelps Dodge that Dawson coal was better for coking than the coal Phelps Dodge was interested in extracting from northwestern New Mexico so on July 1, 1905 Eddy's properties were transferred to Phelps Dodge, the rail line from El Paso to Dawson becoming the Eastern Division of the EP&SW. [19] The approximately 20,000-acre (81 km2; 31 sq mi) parcel was rich in bituminous coal, and Eddy co-founded the Dawson Fuel Company in 1901 to buy and mine the parcel. CloudLibrary The Texas-New Mexico Railroad Company was originally chartered on November 19,1927, to build from a point on the Texas and Pacific Railway near Monahans in Ward Company to Kermit, near the Texas-New Mexico state line, a distance of about 35 miles. Experimenting, merging, using innovative technology and computerized systems, these railroads survive and prosper as a testament to the spirit of the West. The Gilman Tunnels were cut for the railroad, and at one time a large trestle bridge led up to them. To begin the examination, Riskin includes a brief history of railroad development in New Mexico, a description of the architectural features of the state's railroad buildings, and an overview of how railroads work. In 1899 the EP&NE opened a 21 mi (34 km) extension from Carrizozo to Capitan. Tice, as a young man, helped survey the route of one of the first railroads through New Mexico and went on to work for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway system for more than fifty years. [6] A few days later (on October 22, 1897[7]) the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad was incorporated in both New Mexico and Texas. Classic Catalog Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company (D&RGW), byname Rio Grande, former American railroad chartered in 1870 as the Denver and Rio Grande Railway (D&RG). These reminiscences, originally serialized in the Santa Fe magazine in 1932, give the flavor of New Mexico in the 1880s just as the railroads were opening up the territory, and reveal the challenges inherent in building the rail lines. CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — A Marshall, Texas man has died in a possible industrial accident while performing an inspection on a railroad tank car in southeastern New Mexico, company … New Mexico Central Railroad: Arizona and Colorado Railroad: SP: 1904 1910 Arizona Eastern Railroad: Arizona Eastern Railroad: SP: 1904 1955 Southern Pacific Company: Arizona and New Mexico Railway: SP: 1883 1935 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad: ATSF: 1878 1895 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway A small, personable book, well worth a read. [23][2][24]:309, 312[25]:134–135 The A&SM continued to operate for some time as a subsidiary of the EP&SW. Together, they developed materials emphasizing Santa Fe's Indian and Hispanic cultures, promoting artists from the area's art colonies, and created the Indian Detours sightseeing tours. The Alamogordo Improvement Company owned all the land, platted the streets, built the first houses and commercial buildings, donated land for a college, and placed a restrictive covenant on each deed prohibiting the manufacture, distribution, or sale of intoxicating liquor. Exploiting a romantic image of the Indian, the railroad's advertising used paintings and hand-colored lantern slides in calendars, brochures, magazines, posters, and lectures that summoned Americans to their rich heritage and the beautiful lands of the West. The A&SM carried the lumber company's logs to its sawmill in Alamogordo for processing. The Rio Grande And Pagosa Springs Railroad Company In New Mexico is a New Mexico Domestic Profit Corporation filed on February 4, 1895. With period and recent photos of facilities and equipment. Active and abandoned rail lines in the Land of Enchantment. "While in Santa Fe we lived in the old adobe La Fonda tavern, 'The End of the Trail.' The northern New Mexico coal mining and coking company was organized by Henry and Hugo Koehler of St. Louis, Missouri. The transportation of cattle, including the hardy Texas Longhorn, to rich eastern markets contributed to the rise of the cowboy. New on DVD [5] Meanwhile, some of the partially prepared right-of-way in El Paso was incorporated three years later into the promising Kansas City, El Paso and Mexico Railroad (KCEP&M, led by Morris Locke[2]) which built 10 miles (16 km) of track and graded a further 21 before its debt caught up to it. [20] Work on the Dawson Railway began at a crossing of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) at French (near present-day Springer). McLuhan ; with photographs from the William E. Kopplin collection, Jemez Mountains railroads : Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico, Notable Dates in New Mexico's Railroad History, Railroads That Have Operated In New Mexico, The Albuquerque Public Library Foundation. The company wielded tremendous power in New Mexico, and soon made tourism an important facet of its financial enterprise. The company wielded tremendous power in New Mexico, and soon made tourism an important facet of its financial enterprise. [N.P, 1883] Map. - pg. (Ironically, most of these buildings, in what would now be termed the Victorian style, where still standing have been remodeled into the Pueblo Revival or Territorial style.). ... No poetry in old La Fonda, but trafficking, gambling, liquor and blood both flowing freely, riotous days and violent nights." Once chilled steel rails spanned the continent, the transportation of resources, goods, mail and settlers -- drawn by the lure of lands, gold, and adventure -- began changing the face of the West. As a primary source of traffic, this setup deeply hurt the railroad. [2] Eddy was still determined to link his railroad system to a mineral rich area so he hedged, on the advice of his trusted attorney William Ashton Hawkins, that the outcome of litigation about the ownership of part of the Maxwell Land Grant in northeastern New Mexico would favor the current tenant, an elderly rancher named John Dawson, and Hawkins secured the eventual purchase of a parcel of the contested land grant from him. [2] The first section of the Dawson Railway opened in November 1902 and linked the interchange with the AT&SF's transcontinental line to the coal mines, sawmills and coke ovens being built near the future townsite of Dawson, New Mexico. A wider variety of people more readily moved into the area, including homesteaders. [1] Eddy kept his interests somewhat quiet and El Pasoans hopefully speculated that the CRI&P might build its own line to El Paso. Freegal Music Over the course of one month in 1901 the A&SM handled 850 log cars. eResources and Databases In 1878, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) became the first railroad to enter New Mexico, and by the late 1890s it controlled more than half of the track-miles in the Territory. The primary purpose of the TNMR was to serve the oil fields in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The location of the AT&SF main yards in Albuquerque was a major reason for the city's growth -- at one point between a third and a half of Albuquerque's working men were employed with the Yards. Genealogy The logging lines were temporary constructions, sometimes little more than tracks laid in the dirt, and initially relied on animal labor. In the Spring of 1897 he led potential investors from Pennsylvania on a camping trip in the Tularosa Basin. The Jemez Mountains saw the development of several railroads, primarily to support logging but also for a projected boom that never occurred. The project is situated just outside of Santa Teresa, New Mexico which is only a few miles North of the U.S. Border with Mexico. gauge track. Our highly-trained employees and specialized equipment can handle any job – big or small. [35] Another operational hurdle of the original EP&NE was also solved after the sale; Hawkins was able to secure legal rights to cleaner water from the mountains. SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A historic New Mexico railroad is making a comeback. The subsequent history of New Mexico railroads is one of persistent struggle, slow eclipse, and corporate consolidation. All Aboard for Santa Fe focuses on the AT&SF's marketing efforts to highlight Santa Fe as an ideal tourism destination. Gardiner was the second coal-mining town, after Blossburg, established in Dillon Canyon on what is now the vast Vermejo Park Ranch in northeast New Mexico.It was located about three miles southwest of Raton, New Mexico. At the turn of the century, the Santa Fe Railway set out on a massive campaign to lure travelers into its southwestern territory, that remarkable desert landscape (including the Grand Canyon) then populated by little else than cactus, lizards, and a few scattered Indian tribes. The SOO Line Railroad (reporting mark SOO) is the primary United States railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), controlled through the Soo Line Corporation, and one of seven U.S. Class I railroads. The St. Louis, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific Company was incorporated in New Mexico on June 26, 1905. After the El Paso & Northeastern Railroad reached Alamogordo in 1898, New Mexico business tycoons Charles & John Eddy formed and built the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Railway, which tapped into rich timber country and provided raw materials for expansion of their other railroad properties. More than 110 hand-colored photographs are reproduced in this stunning book, along with a gallery of advertising art and original paintings in full color, two maps, and a selection of archival black-and-white photographs. Soon trains of freight and passenger cars, marvel of the industrial age, crisscrossed the territory delivering eastern fashion, settlers, and tourists and hauling away lumber, coal, silver, and cattle. My Account. Two daily roundtrips, one a mixed train, were common, though this frequency could increase more than twofold on Summer weekends.[2]. [36], Sale to the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad and Phelps Dodge, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=El_Paso_and_Northeastern_Railway&oldid=991072762, Predecessors of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 November 2020, at 03:09. - from the book jacket. It began with a narrow-gauge line extending from Denver, Colorado, south to New Mexico and west to Salt Lake City, Utah. AT&SF also joined forces with the Fred Harvey Company, owner of numerous hotels and restaurants along the rail line, to promote Santa Fe. Ironically, however, the EP&SW saw an addition during this time when it took over the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad on January 1, 1922 which was sold by parent Arizona Copper Company feeling the affects of the metal's decline. Towns boomed when a railway came through, and dwindled when the tracks were taken up. - from the book jacket. New Mexico, isolated until 1878 when the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad laid the first span of track in the territory, in just thirty months had over 1,000 miles of rail line. Groff Lumber Company Inc 7902 4th St NW , Los Ranchos, NM 87114 Rail Runner South Capitol 1301 Alta Vista St , Santa Fe, NM 87505 Pete's Landscaping Materials LLC 5200 Modesto Ave. NE , Albuquerque, NM 87113 Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 500 Terrace Ave , [26]:132, 134, Trips to the cool mountain resort of Cloudcroft (elevation 8,650 ft or 2,640 m) were a favorite retreat for El Pasoans around the turn of the century. This railroad, built in the 1880’s, runs the 64 miles between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito, Colorado over gorgeous mountainous terrain, thru tunnels and on high narrow trestles as a tourist attraction for both states. The new railroads owned by WTS will be the Texas and New Mexico Railway, which will take over operations of the rail line currently operated by TNMR, … [32] Through Eddy's Dawson Fuel Company, the NMRy&CCo helped spur the early development of Dawson, which is now deserted, in the form of one-hundred dwellings for its workers, in addition to industrial facilities. Special Collections, Upcoming Events The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad was a short-line American railway company which operated in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, with line extensions across the international border into Mexico.The railroad was known as the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad from 1888 to 1902. Even after their decline, with the rise of the highway and the passenger jet, western railroads continue today to grow and change. - from the book jacket. At Santa Fe, NM's El Museo Cultural Center and Railyard District Labor Day Weekend - 2019 Opening Night Reception, Panel Discussion, and Exhibition Aug. 30, 2019 (5-8pm) Railroad Art, Photography, and Model Railroad Exhibition Aug. 31 - Sept. 2, 2019 (10a-4pm) The outcome of those proceedings allowed for the completion of the originally projected 132-mile (212 km) Dawson Railway in 1903. [13], While work to the east was also under way the EP&NE under its own name was extended further north to Carrizozo, near White Oaks. The project is on a 2,200 acre site with 27 buildings which support functions from administration to fueling to water treatment. Soon hordes of pretty, crisply dressed "Harvey Girls" were serving thousands of new and enthusiastic tourists. The author also did a 1996 study of railroad depots in New Mexico, commissioned by the New Mexico Dept. Compiled from articles previously published in >New Mexico magazine from 1964-1980. I also thought how different they would be from the 'Tales of a Wayside Inn' as recounted to us in rhyme by Longfellow. UP sold the TNMR to shortline operator RailTex (RT) in 1989. Founded by Charles Eddy, the EP&NE was the primary railroad in a system organized under the New Mexico Railway and Coal Company (NMRy&CCo), a holding company which owned several other railroads and also owned mining and industrial properties served by the lines. All Aboard for Santa Fe is a comprehensive study of AT&SF's early involvement in the establishment of western tourism and the mystique of Santa Fe. of Cultural Affairs, New Mexico Steam Locomotive and Railroad Historical Society, National Railway Historical Society website, The development of the American Southwest. History, effect, and current status of railroads, railways, and trains in New Mexico, Fred Harvey, the Harvey Houses, and the Harvey Girls, "Private Varnish" - Travel on Private Train Cars, Railroads and Railroad Towns in New Mexico, Ree Sheck (Editor), compiled and revised by William Clark, The Train Stops Here: New Mexico's Railway Legacy, Classic Railroad Advertising : Riding the Rails Again, Dream Tracks : the railroad and the American Indian 1890-1930, by T.C. The railroad's beginnings lie in the discovery of gold at White Oaks, New Mexico in 1879, at which point railroads began to gain interest in the Tularosa Basin and Sacramento Mountains. A railroad company is investing a lot of money in New Mexico. By 1903 the line climbed 4,747 feet (1,447 m) over 32 mi (51 km) crossing several large trestles and a switchback with ruling grades of 6.4 %. hoopla [2], The Alamogordo Lumber Company was NMRy&CCo's logging enterprise and owned the logging railways, short spurs and branches, that first harvested the territory's trust land in the Sacramento Mountains. To accommodate travelers, the railroad set up deluxe guided tours and went into business with the Fred Harvey Company. It has been years since the Santa Fe Southern has run in the state capital, now a famous New … [17] It marked the opening of a new transcontinental route[18] that gave the CRI&P "the shortest line from Chicago and Kansas City to El Paso and Mexico, and by way of the Southern Pacific to Los Angeles. In 1999, RT merged with … [26]:134–135 The A&SM itself became a tourist attraction. [2] Over the next fifteen years several railroads were projected to link the two settlements but only limited construction had been pursued by the time Charles Eddy developed an interest in linking El Paso with the CRI&P. FARMINGTON N.M — The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad has been a national landmark. The New Mexico Railroad Development & Land Company is a New Mexico Other/No Corp Type From Mnfrm filed on January 7, 1897. Library Advisory Board In 1982, the MP was, in turn, merged into the Union Pacific Railroad (UP). Naxos Music The trackage continues to be operated today by the BNSF Railway, corporate successor to the GN. [29] Traffic on the A&SM line was not restricted to passengers and logs, a wide variety of other cargo was hauled including express, goods, machinery, produce, and livestock. While the best consumers for the mill's output were the NMRy&CCo's interests, lumber was also shipped out on the EP&NE destined for other markets, especially the mining districts at Bisbee and Morenci, Arizona. Click through to see items in the catalog on these subjects: New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, of the New Mexico Dept. The lines of the NMRy&CCo were responsible for the founding of several settlements in the Territory of New Mexico (later New Mexico). The Cumbres & Toltec Railroad was named the New Mexico’s official State Train in 2005. The bulk of the book is an account of what is left of the state's railroad heritage, organized geographically within each rail system: the Santa Fe system from Raton to Silver City, the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado & Southern, the Southern Pacific, and the El Paso and Northeastern, among others. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Storytimes When the railroad arrived from the north it immediately took up rapid transport of  goods and passengers such as had previously come in along the Santa Fe Trail, fueling a new prosperity and growth in the Territory. Construction began in September 1888 with loans from local entrepreneurs and some word of financial commitment from interests in the American Northeast. Previously the system had relied on alkali and gypsum rich well water that damaged the steam engines' boilers and necessitated frequent repairs. Eddy received financial backing from these men but he did immediately not make any major announcements, file for incorporation in the territory or apply for the El Paso–White Oaks railway franchise. From the outside world it provided improved connections to rich timber country, and later the resort at Cloudcroft—in addition to small communities like La Luz and Russia. The coal deposits in the area were also enticing as they were perceived to be a good source of fuel for the city of El Paso 160 mi (260 km) to the south. The EP&NE first connected El Paso with Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1897, further extensions allowed for tourist excursions to the Sacramento Mountains and some timber extraction. By late 1944, freight traffic had dwindled to a single round trip weekly, also due to highway traffic. Year round passenger service was provided by the westbound Chicago and Mexico Express and the eastbound Chicago Express. [4], Eddy had been in contact with the leadership of the CRI&P but had been unsuccessful in his pitch to connect their railroad to El Paso. Many a smaller town in New Mexico owes its very existence to the railroad and is laid out along the railroad tracks, and if you travel along those tracks (often two streets away from that town's Main Street) you might find a Harvey House still standing though most often vacant, a fading reminder of another time when rail travel was not only essential but sometimes even elegant. This page describes New Mexico railroads currently in OSM. The Albuquerque Public Library Foundation. [8], Not long after connecting Alamogordo to El Paso, Eddy, his chief engineer Horace Sumner and their crews set about building the Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway (A&SM). Interestingly, the EP&SW nevertheless continued to grow when it took over the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad on January 1, 1922. Newsletters [10] Alamogordo remained the operational base of the EP&NE system for much of its history. AZER was originally chartered in 1895 as the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern, with 133 route-miles between Bowie and Miami, Arizona. The steel, steam, and dreams of a century of railroading in New Mexico are captured in 200 photographs and a crisp text. [4] In 1888 CRI&P engineers began an eastward survey from Liberal, Kansas that projected never built lines through the Maxwell Land Grant to Taos, New Mexico and further west. This rail bridge is situated near Culiacan Junction on the west coast of Mexico. [27] The EP&SW continued to encourage tourism on the A&SM line describing Cloudcroft as the "Roof Garden of the Sky" or "Nature's Roof Garden" and building its own hotel, the Lodge. The railroad is a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company of USA, and controls 1,355 miles of 4 ft 8½-in. [6] In May 1897 on the other side of the country in New Jersey the New Mexico Railway and Coal Company was incorporated, it would become the holding company for Eddy and his group's vertically integrated interests. Dozens of photos, black & white and color, augment the informative text. Improved access to Eastern goods had an effect upon not only daily lifestyles but also New Mexican architecture; the ready availability of fired bricks and roofing tin sparked a wave of "Eastern-style" construction in contrast to the utilitarian structures allowed by local materials. Railroads were also important in developing tourism in New Mexico, with beautiful advertisements offering the accommodations of Fred Harvey's Houses and the grandeur of the scenery accessible via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (which, curiously enough, did not directly service Santa Fe, only coming as close as Lamy.) Some of these lines, and whole railway companies, are long gone now, the only traces being some route cuts and embankments and the occasional rusty spike. The railroads became vital not just along the East-West and North-South corridors, but also because of the many branches and lines which led to lumber, livestock, mineral, and cultural resources. [21], James Douglas, a representative and co-owner of the growing Phelps Dodge mining corporation who was also the owner of the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad (EP&SW), entered negotiations with Eddy over the sale of the NMRy&CCo, the holding company for Eddy's rail and coal properties in the territory and Texas. Browse All, About Us Atlantic And Pacific Railroad Company. Styled the Southwest Pacific Railroad, the new company built only twelve miles of track to the Gasconade River before defaulting, leading to another seizure and sale by the state and formation of the South Pacific Railroad in 1868. Over the years, he served as telegraph operator, stationmaster, and superintendent for the system. Quality. The Permian Basin railroad assets are located in Texas and New Mexico and are the Austin & Northwestern Railroad Company, Inc. (d/b/a Texas New Mexico Railroad) (TNMR) and West Texas and Lubbock Railroad Company, Inc. (WTLC). The El Paso and Northeastern Railway (EP&NE) was a short line railroad that was built around the beginning of the twentieth century to help connect the industrial and commercial center at El Paso, Texas, with physical resources and the United States' national transportation hub in Chicago. [14] With an operational railroad in place extending north-by-northeast from El Paso, Eddy was able to better gain the attentions of the CRI&P leadership. Train travel comes to life in ads featuring scenic panoramas and locomotives pulling long strings of streamlined cars. Founded by Charles Eddy, the EP&NE was the primary railroad in a system organized under the New Mexico Railway and Coal Company (NMRy&CCo), a holding company which owned several other railroads and also owned mining and industrial properties served by the lines. [5] The El Paso and Rock Island Railway (EP&RI) was incorporated in 1900 by Eddy to build the remaining 128 mi (206 km) between Santa Rosa and Carrizozo. Conversion to standard-gauge track began in 1888. [1] An interested railroad promoter, Morris Locke, noted that the forests of the Sacramento Mountains would be a good source of timber. This background will help answer questions that may arise on a visit to a rail-yard: What is that strangely shaped train car carrying? The TP was under financial control of the Missouri Pacific Railway (MP) beginning in 1928. This book is an overview of these long-gone railroads and the towns that once existed along them. R. J. Corman Railroad Services is a full-service railroad construction, maintenance-of-way and emergency response company with 20 divisions strategically located across the nation. [9] It would become the main New Mexican town on the EP&NE in only a matter of a few years. State Supreme Court hearing case regarding possible release of prison inmates during COVID-19 [26]:134–135 Since the line's opening, Summer excursion trains were operated into the Sacramento Mountains east of Alamogordo via the A&SM from El Paso, and under new ownership as late as 1930. Programs by Type [12] The logs harvested in the mountains provided the Alamogordo Lumber Company (owned by the NMRy&CCo) with many of the raw materials necessary to make the ties, poles and structures for the EP&NE's northward expansion. Computer & Technology Classes THE CULIACAN RIVER BRIDGE, built by the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico. The railway also made it easy for thousands of tuberculosis patients to travel to New Mexico in search of a more salutary climate, another reason for a surge in Albuquerque's population and growth across the state as some of the "lungers" became residents. of Highway and Transportation. Just a few days after the first excursion trains operated on the new line, lawsuits were filed in court seeking restitution for the Texas and Pacific Railway, the unpaid shipper of the KCEP&M's construction materials. [2] When another group of men sought the necessary franchise from the El Paso city council, Eddy intervened and won the franchise because of the rival group's inability to pay a performance bond. [8] The town was named Alamogordo after a location Eddy was familiar with in the Pecos River Valley. How is that twisted piece of metal used? Its coal-fired engine has been taking people from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, Colorado for decades. 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