Clovis Cranks Up the Volume
WITH 90 MINUTES UNTIL SHOWTIME, parking is already scarce at the Curry County Events Center. I hurry toward the front gates, passing out-of-towners as they help their children down from dusty pickups…
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Tag: Railroad
Revival Las Vegas
WHEN LAWRENCE QUINTANA WAS A SENIOR at West Las Vegas High School, the class of 1977 was allowed to roam the nearby Las Vegas Plaza during lunch. But a sandwich—or even a bit of window shopping—could…
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The Rails Dishes Out Trackside Fare
“WE’RE 30 FEET OFF THE TRACKS,” says Tate Nichols, co-owner of The Rails, the restaurant occupying Clovis’s historic train depot. “That’s a live rail that runs through there.” While trains might…
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Why We Love NM: Our Tracks Take You Back in Time
B UILT IN 1880 TO HAUL SILVER pulled from mines in the San Juan Mountains, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad offers riders a trip to the past. The narrow-gauge railroad takes a scenic ride from…
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Memories: Three Feet Wide
“GRANDPA, WHY DO TRAINS need three tracks to run on?” That naive question by a little boy of eight unlocked a storehouse of memories thousands of miles long but seldom over three feet wide. “Well…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a fair time. Stars, Stripes, and Summer Nights is the theme of this year’s Rodeo Parade at the Los Alamos County Fair. It winds down Central Avenue at 10 a.m. on Saturday. “This year we have…
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Rail Yard Renaissance
ONE DECEMBER DAY IN 1920, Isadore Freed, a Russian émigré to New York and then Iowa, stepped off an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train at the Albuquerque depot. Behind him, the Alvarado Hotel…
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On the Right Track
FROM THE OUTSIDE, the engine workshop of the historic Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, in Antonito, Colorado, doesn’t seem like much. Not to my eyes anyway. It takes stepping inside, where the…
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Where to Shop Fred Harvey–Era Jewelry
Vintage Fred Harvey-era jewelry, from left to right: vintage knifewing box, ca. 1930s, $395; vintage thunderbird pendant with turquoise, ca. 1950s, $495; vintage stamped bracelet with turquoise, ca…
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Quintessentially NM: Wild West
Rodeos throughout the state still celebrate the working cowboy. Photograph by Sara Maxfeldt. Trails and Rails THE SPANISH BROUGHT COWS, SHEEP, AND VAQUERO skills to New Mexico, but cowboying in the…
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