New Mexico Mystery Railroad

[Bryan]

This subject has cropped up.
Does Richard have any more info available?
Locos and stock etc visible in the overhead satellite shot

It is located about 8 miles due west of Double Eagle Airport which is west of Albuquerque.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Albuque ... k&t=h&z=16
Is it for the new Lone Ranger film?
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/local/cent ... e-film-set

[third-rail]

This subject has cropped up.
Does Richard have any more info available?
Locos and stock etc visible in the overhead satellite shot

It is located about 8 miles due west of Double Eagle Airport which is west of Albuquerque.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Albuque ... k&t=h&z=16
Is it for the new Lone Ranger film?
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/local/cent ... e-film-set

looks very like a film set to me,there is also another short length of isolated track further south which is in the process of being built

[richard]

Google seem unusually quick with the photos if it is, but it does look like a film set under construction - closed loop, what looks like a steam engine on one of the HGVs, and a film set "Wild West Town". (I actually drove around Dodge City a few months back, and it is nothing like the movies ).

Modern coal operations (e.g. in Wyoming) do use "balloon tracks" for what we'd call Merry-Go-Round operations, but this isn't one of those. No mainline connection, no coal (and I don't think there's coal around there - it is in the Rio Grande Rift Valley).

[60800]

There's something on the north eastern section of loop. It looks like a flat car with a cherry picker (possibly for filming)

EDIT: There's a steam loco in the station of the small town too. I wouldn't be too surprised if it was the same loco that appeared in Back to the Future part III