N.M.FREIGHT ORIGINAL

11″ X 14 N.M. FREIGHT oil on masonite board. Somewhere out there in the lonesome high desert of New Mexico, a lone freight train makes it’s way through the harsh but beautiful landscape that gives New Mexico it’s well-deserved nickname: The Land of Enchantment. Past flat top buttes and mesas and cone-shaped hoodoos, you can almost hear the faint wail of the lead locomotive’s horn. You see, out here, among the sagebrush and the ocittillo and the cacti, the railroad never sleeps. It could be a freight heading to the Raton Pass on it’s way to the flatlands of eastern Colorado, or an Amtrak Southwest Chief or Sunset Limited on it’s way to Chicago or the City of New Orleans. And if it gets too dark, mother nature helps the train find it’s way with a little moonlight and a blanket of stars in the night sky.