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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

Bryan wrote: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

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).

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