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ERNIE MONTOyA
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Arts District, provides a unique environment for exhibiting art in all media. Its exterior adobe architecture belies its interior with glass catwalks, stairway, sky lights and central atrium. ZBCAs roster includes exceptional work by blue-chip artists, internationally-recognized artists, regional and local artists.
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By D e n n i s J. C ar r o ll ph o to s B y k it t y le ake n
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train was chugging by the grain elevators when one of the coal cars began to teeter violently. Then it completely left the track.
Fortunately, Duane Schmitz was standing nearby at the time, and he carefully reached over the HO narrow-gauge track and righted the car, recoupling it to the cars fore and aft. Sometimes these things happen, said Schmitz, a member of the Belen Model Rail Club. The group of about 30 middle-aged and retired men who refuse to grow old, and who maintain youth through their model train hobby, plays mostly at the Harvey House Museum near the Belen Rail Runner station. There, they have laid out 800 or so feet of track over the past few years. Most of the layout runs through an imaginary panorama of northcentral New Mexico, from Santa Fe in the distant north to Route 60 toward Socorro in the south, and from Mount Taylor in the west to the Manzano Mountains in the east. To create the scenery and geography for the trains to pass through, Dawn MacDougall and Sandy Goldstein, members of the Belen Art League, used photographs as guides as they painted the mountains and other New Mexico features on the four walls of the largest room. The photos were taken by club member Jim McClure, a third 16
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If you go
The Belen Model Railroad Club is open to the public from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sundays, and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. It is closed Mondays. The Club will have its 2012 model train show from Sept. 18 to Oct. 20. The event is free of charge and open to the public from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. every day except Monday. A special vendor exhibit will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. It includes a swap meet and sales of model trains, kits and railroad memorabilia. For more information, visit bmrctrains.wordpress.com. Instructions for reaching the museum by both car and Rail Runner are on the site. The Harvey House Museum phone number is 505-861-0581.
generation railroad man on real railroads. The generally bright, sun-infused mural includes a thunderstorm over Santa Fe and fluffy clouds near Acoma Mesas Sky City church. Mount Taylor casts its giant shadow toward Grants, and El Cerro de Los Lunas summit juts up near Tome-Adelino in Valencia County. Much of the geography tracks along with what is actually visible from Interstate 25 and the Rail Runner Express route from Santa Fe to Belen. The guys got more than they were expecting, said Goldstein. They thought we were just going to do some kind of line drawing. Instead they got a full dimensional painting with shadowing and everything. She said that at one point, they had to stop and redo parts of the mural because they didnt have the light coming from the same direction. It took 40 hours to complete, and is painted with acrylics. We had a spray bottle of water in one hand and a paint brush in the other. MacDougall also gave the club members a couple of lessons in how to mix and match colors, so they could blend their work on the table with what we had done on the wall. They caught on pretty quickly. Inspired club members have also added their own bits of imaginary spice to the mural, including a couple of passenger jet cutouts and what appear to be two World War II attack planes 18
engaged in a dog fight over the Manzanos. Sometimes we just put in things that we think would be interesting, said Schmitz. By operating a series of control panels in the various rooms, several club members at once can guide their trains, including a model of the Rail Runner, past sites and scenery, imagined and real. One detail has a bungee jumper dangling from a trestle bridge, just around a bend from a waddle of penguins frolicking on an ice floe. Over time, the club has acquired 250 to 300 cars and dozens of engines that its members can couple together to form trains. They then send them through the four rooms past rural and small town settings, including those grain elevators, water towers topped with blinking lights, train depots, a farm, an ice house, a Veterans Memorial Park complete with a miniature tank, a lake with campers, and stockyards. The towns generally represent what you might see in the communities of Belen, Clovis, El Paso and Socorro. For added realism, Schmitz occasionally paints some graffiti on cars. The trains climb Switchback Mountain, zip through tunnels and chug past shop fronts landscaped with colored pipe-cleaner trees. Nearby, tiny crews inspect tiny storm drains. I put them in there because thats what I used to do, said Schmitz, a former city worker in Albuquerque Much of the materials and cars are bought at model train swap meets, an occasional flea market, and hobby shops. Model railroading is not necessarily an inexpensive endeavor, though. A hundred-dollar engine is considered a bargain. One that has a horn or mimics the noises of a real traveling diesel can easily go for $150 to $200. With all of the cars, engines and scenery not to mention the tracks, electrical wiring, houses, stores and whatnot club member George Winters, once an electrical contractor, estimates the total cost of the whole setup at, Well, lets just say its more than $20,000. He said the club raises money for the display through dues, donations, a vendor show in January, and swap meets during its twice-yearly presentations in the museums showroom. There the club assembles a scaled-down 40 x 20 foot version of the four-room setup and leaves it up for a month. Schmitz said the Harvey House, and its railroad layout, has been growing in popularity in recent years. Its really the thing to see in Belen.
For more information on these events and a complete list of Albuquerque events, please visit:
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Downtown
Just off the Rail Runner stop at the Alvarado Transportation Center, you'll find bustling nightlife along Central Avenue (Route 66), including many nightclubs, theaters, restaurants and events.
Nob Hill
Route 66 neon signs and architecture combined with predominantly locally-owned shops, galleries and restaurants make Nob Hill a hip and fashionable area located just east of the University.
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Uptown
Home to two major shopping centers, this area offers some of Albuquerques newest developments including high-end national and local clothing, accessories, home furnishings and dining options.
A cultural gem with 5 museums and over 100 shops, galleries and restaurants. Stop by the visitor information center to pick up a free Official Visitors Guide and Vacation Planner and other information.
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the Santa Fe Depot carries only one engineer. Another had been added for this trip, so the assigned engineer could talk with a reporter about whats involved with operating a train, without being distracted by having to do whats involved with operating a train. Phillis Worthy, who had been assigned engine 109 for the day, hunched down in the well between Davis in the engineers seat and the reporter in the firemans seat the second seat in a diesel locomotive. The term is left over from the days when a fireman would shovel coal into the firebox of a steam locomotive. The chair, Worthy said, is now used mainly by the occasional federal railroad inspector, supervisor or member of a Rail Runner crew scouting for problems with the tracks. The interior of the cab is relatively uncluttered. The engineers operating console (with a throttle, reverser, and hand brake controls) is at the front right. The firemans seat is to the left. A computer screen that can warn of problems is on the wall to the rear.
As a safety precaution, the cab is also equipped with visual and audio signals that the engineer must respond to every so often. Otherwise, the train will stop automatically. During a trip there is a fair amount of radio chatter between the engineer and the conductor about conditions at each station. There also is dialogue between the engineer and the dispatcher in Albuquerque concerning track conditions and the status and locations of other trains along the line. The Rail Runners 3,600-horsepower push-pull diesel-electric locomotives are built by Motive Power out of Boise, Idaho, and if opened up full throttle can hurl down the tracks at more than 100 miles per hour. However, Rail Runner trains are limited to 79 miles per hour. No matter how tempting it might be to open her up and see what she can do, If we were to go faster than (79), Worthy said, the train would automatically stop. Safety first, always.
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Train Treasures
CoLLeCTing TrAin memorAbiLiA
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Riding trains is a treat for most people. Whether its a commuter line like the Rail Runner, a regional railway, or one that crosses a continent, it carries excitement, eagerness and a sense of adventure.
But some folks not only enjoy a trip but eat, breathe, and live railways. Many of them collect items that show off their love of locomotives and just about every other aspect of trains. Scale-model train hobbyists are perhaps the best known in this category, but there are many others who specialize in unusual or odd corners of rail history. Some of them even fill their houses and storage sheds with train treasures. For this genre of collector, the goods can range from the tiniest part of a locomotive engine to special stamp issues commemorating trains; from ticket stubs to special lapel buttons or printed materials; and from uniforms and service badges to samples of different rail spikes.
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In the Midwest and here in the Southwest, many aficionados concentrate their search on the storied Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe line. One collector I know of has cabinet after cabinet full of Santa Fe and especially Super Chief dining car place settings. Coffee pots and cups and saucers. Thermoses, tea sets, and ashtrays. Relish trays, butter plates, and ice cream bowls. The trove includes not only original pieces designed by Fred Harvey architect and decorator Mary Colter, but dinnerware from other lines, and some modern reproductions. He also has specialty items from some of the deluxe accommodations on the Santa Fe, including the famed Turquoise Room, a private dining section that could seat up to 12 lucky passengers for lunch or dinner. Reproductions of these china sets are widely available now for fairly moderate prices, but original pieces in top condition can go for thousands of dollars. Be advised!
Youre reading this on the rail runner, probably, so dont forget that the rr has plenty of memorabilia of its own available on the website www.nmrailrunnerstore.com/. There are calendars, caps, shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, and pins and patches for just about every stop on the line. There are items geared to kids, including a wooden rail runner toy train and a wooden train whistle, as well as clothing. The collection also includes a poster, a mouse pad, lanyards, a fleece blanket, a car license plate, a keychain, a Christmas ornament, a briefcase-type bag, and an assortment of beverage mugs to suit every commuters taste. Just the thing for your special rail fans next birthday, anniversary, or office party. And dont forget to get something for yourself, as well.
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destinations you could reach in just a day or two. Among interesting local subsets are those featuring the Native American guides and artists who used to ride the Super Chief through the Southwest and tell riders about the history and geography of the land. Framed or bound, these ads are beloved by collectors as design accent pieces. But some aficionados are content simply to have them safely tucked away in portfolios, just like some stamp collectors keep their treasures away from prying hands. Timetables, route maps, station pictures or drawings, informative brochures, and prints or original paintings of train subjects figure in here as well.
If youre not quite sure about starting off as a railroad memorabilia collector, but would like to be able to learn more about the subject, fret not. According to the website railmuseums.com, there are 293 such institutions in North America, including three in New Mexico. Theres the previously mentioned New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society (nmslrhs.org/, 505-246-2926, 33 8th St. NW, Albuquerque). Also in Albuquerque, the Wheels Transportation Museum is working toward getting established in the old train yard sheds and buildings (www. wheelsmuseum.org/). And its worth a trip to Alamogordo to visit the Toy Train Depot (toytraindepot. homestead.com, 991 N. White Sands Blvd., 1-888-207-3564). It offers more than 8,000 items of railroad memorabilia to see, plus model trains from scale Z to the regular 4-feet 8-inch national gauge full-size, in other words. A 16-inch narrow gauge train can be ridden on the grounds.
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I love running. It is my life, said the 31-year-old marathoner. And these days, Lagat spends a lot of time doing just that, between training for marathons and chasing her 7-year-old daughter. Recently, Lagat took top honors in the Inaugural Rail Runner Run and Bike Tour. She competed in the 5K component of the event, and crossed the finish line in about 18 minutes. I had a good race, Lagat said. It came at a time when I needed to get my speed in. What she means by that, is that shes training for the Twin Cities Marathon coming up in October in Minnesota, and she needs to get in some shorter-distance races for speed to keep her in top form. Lagate came to the United States on a runners scholarship to the University of Toledo in Ohio. After graduating seven years ago, she moved to New Mexico to take advantage of the great weather and high altitude that makes Albuquerque an ideal spot for training. I can still get outside here in the winters because they are generally mild. This climate allows me to get in my 90 miles of running per week pretty much year-round. Yes, you read that right: 90 miles. In 2009, Lagat took first place in Grandmas Marathon, which takes place each year in Duluth, Minn. She placed third in that same race in 2010 and second last year, with a time of 2 hours, 31 minutes. Lagat is not the only runner in the family. On the day she ran in the Rail Runner Run, her brother, 37-year-old Bernard Lagat, placed fourth in the 5,000-meter event in this years Summer Olympics his third time as an Olympic competitor. He missed a medal by one spot, said Lagat, but he did bring home a bronze for Kenya in the 2000 Olympic games, and a gold for the U.S. in the 1,500-meter event in Athens in 2008. While his proud sister is setting her sights on her next big race, she is every bit as thrilled to have won the Inaugural Rail Runner Run and she was happy to have the chance to do it. I had fun, she said. I wasnt sure how I was going to do, but by and by I kept picking up my pace and before I knew it, I could see the finish line. It was a good run. 26
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Paintings, bronzes and polychrome ceramic vessels demonstrate the multidimensionality of the artists dazzling work.
Woven Identities
Through April 1, 2014
Exquisite baskets woven by artists representing 60 cultural groups in six cultural areas of western North America: the Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, California, the Northwest Coast, and the Arctic.
The great pride and skill the Din take in adorning their horses is revealed in this display of weavings both everyday and fanciful.
Works from the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona are presented here, representing the evolution of community traditions.