We got out of the station on time but soon stopped to meet a Rail Runner at Hann. It has just past us so we will soon be on the way. Our two goals on this trip are to ride the rails over what may soon be dropped as an Amtrak route and to spot potential access roads for photo excursions later in the week. It's possible we may find additional semaphores but unlikely. Lots of research has been done.
BNSF continues to discuss moving the Southwest Chief to the TransCon through Amarillo and down to Belen. Since Amtrak provides the only traffic there is little incentive to maintain the track to a high speed standard and new slow orders were recently put in place on parts of the route.
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