#thegreatdivide

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. This is the Crosslands Bible Church, approximately five miles up Highway 371 from Thoreau, New Mexico.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. Here's a long-lens view of an eastbound stack train. I'm shooting from the Highway 371 overpass at Thoreau, off I-40, just a few miles east of the Continental Divide.

This rail line is the former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; this segment was created using the Atlantic & Pacific Charter, which allowed the ATSF to get from Isleta, south of Albuquerque to the riches of California via Needles, Arizona.

The stack train seen here is headed toward Belen, New Mexico, from there it will take the eponymous cutoff (rather than climbing over Raton Pass) for points east.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. We're on the Divide literally today, and the maps say so: "Continental Divide" is the place name here along I-40. This post office is across the interstate from the Native American market shown in yesterday's post.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. We're on the Divide literally today, and the maps say so: "Continental Divide" is the place name here along I-40.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point: road signs along US Highway 60, twenty-two miles west of Magdalena.

I made this image while desperately trying to shoot the dishes of the Very Large Array against the dying sunset. I happened to turn toward the east and saw how the back of road signs reflected the dimming embers of dusk in the west.

At the time I thought it quite stunning, but only squeezed off two frames and I was frantic to shoot the VLA. I'm glad I did that as I'm quite happy with the effect. I can now look for this in the future when in the field.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point. This was my motel for one night: the former High Country Lodge, now called the Magdalena Motor Inn. I'll have plenty of images of Magdalena, a small town really, coming up in subsequent posts.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point: here are three images of the Elephant Butte Dam and reservoir.

Since I went to this location about seven and a half years ago, I copied the same three views done then—which you can see on this old post. I'll repeat some basic information here:

The Elephant Butte Dam, constructed between 1911 and 1915, is situated here on the Rio Grande River, not far from Truth or Consequences...this dam provides power and water for irrigation for the state as well as for a portion of neighboring West Texas.

Somewhere in the West

Continuing my month long series of posts with images made in New Mexico with the Great Divide as my focus or jumping off point: here are two more images from the attractive little town of Hillsboro.