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bits of old equipment are often the unrestored parts - signs, builder's
plates, walk-over seats.  The Santa Fe Southern owns marvelous equipment: 
operational but worn locomotives, dusty dome cars, passenger cars from
different eras and places.  It is a lovely line in a distant place. 
(Unless you live in New Mexico, which of course, puts the line in your
backyard.  New Mexico magazine carries a regular column featuring
stories of people who believe the state is part of a country to the south.) |   |