Jemez Mountains Railroads, Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico

COVER

Cover: A rendering of the Santa Fe Northwestern's Locomotive Number 107. Originally purchased by the A&P, it served with the AT&SF until 1930 and then for the SFNW until 1942.

FIGURES

TABLES

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

SANTA FE NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY

The Cañon de San Diego Land Grant
Building the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway
Guadalupe Box
Operating a Lumber Company
Hard Times
Reorganization
New Mexico Lumber and Timber Company
The Final Years

CUBA EXTENSION RAILWAY

Cuba Extension Railway
San Juan Basin Railroad
Santa Fe Northern Railroad
Santa Fe, San Juan & Northern Railroad

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

REFERENCES CITED

1. Sidney Weil in August, 1956

2. General location map of the Cañon de San Diego Land Grant

3. American Hoist & Derrick Company log loader

4. Rio Grande trestle soon after its construction in early 1923

5. The sawmill at Bernalillo soon after its completion in 1924

6. Typical low pile trestle crossing an arroyo, circa 1923

7. Guadalupe Box during the railroad era

8. The large trestle leading to the Guadalupe Box tunnels

9. The southern approach to the Guadalupe Box

10. Map of the Jemez Mountain Railroads

11. A steel log car of the SFNW in the summer of 1939 at O'Neil Landing

12. Teams of horses were still used to skid logs in the woods in 1932

13. Locomotive Number 101 approaching the scene of a derailment

14. Santa Fe Northwestern locomotive Number 101 at Bernalillo

15. Railroad and shop facilities of the White Pine Lumber Company at Porter

16. A railroad trestle and dwellings scattered through the woods at Porter

17. Don Hammond and his wife lived in this tiny cabin at Porter

18. New Mexico Lumber & Timber Company store and warehouse at Porter

19. Railroad trestle and buildings at Porter New Mexico, circa 1932

20. Santa Fe Northwestern Railway locomotive Number 103 at O'Neil Landing

21. Details of SFNW locomotive Number 103, circa 1937 - 1941

22. The railroads in the upper canyon of the Cañon de San Diego Land Grant

23. Santa Fe Northwestern Railway Number 2, a rail-auto conversion of a Buick coupe

24. One of the rail-autos, probably at Porter, circa 1932

25. The log pond and a string of log cars at the Bernalillo sawmill, circa 1927

26. Boyd Curnutte and Don Curnutte

27. Bucking a felled tree into logs twenty-feet long for skidding

28. Two caterpillar tractors skidding a log across soft ground

29. Power shovel on a tracked chassis

30. A large washout of a timber trestle

31. Santa Fe Northwestern locomotive Number 105 in the sawmill yards

32. Locomotive Number 106 of the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway

33. Converted Number 107 of the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway at Bernalillo

34. Locomotive Number 101 and the heavily rebuilt tender

35. Train of empty log cars climbing up the grade near Canyon, New Mexico

36. The sawmill at Bernalillo about 1931

37. The railroad trestles along the Rio de las Vacas north of Porter

38. The spur railroad from the Rio de las Vacas into Ojitos Canyon

39. The New Mexico Lumber and Timber Company camp in Ojitos Canyon

40. Ojitos camp, circa 1937 - 1939

41. This early truck was coming down a canyon on a well-built roadway

42. A detailed view of one of the early log trucks, circa 1932

43. A "rail-auto" on the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway, posed on a tall trestle

44. American Hoist and Derrick diesel loader at O'Neil Landing

45. Heisler locomotive Number 105 at Bernalillo

46. After a fire in the autumn of 1939, the Joaquin Canyon trestle was rebuilt

47. Details of typical railroad trestle construction

48. View from the track approach to the Joaquin Canyon trestle construction

49. New Mexico Timber Company's last railroad locomotive at Bernalillo

50. The New Mexico Timber Company sawmill at Gilman, New Mexico in 1968

51. A fully loaded Mack log truck emerges from the Guadalupe Box tunnels

52. Santa Fe, San Juan & Northern Railroad roadbed at Mile Post 28.5, near La Ventana

53. A washout along the Santa Fe, San Juan & Northern Railroad line to La Ventana

54. Foundations of the tipple at the opening of Cleary Mine at La Ventana

55. Site of Luciani Mine near La Ventana on October 27, 1973

56. Locomotive Number 377 of the San Juan Coal & Coke Company at La Ventana

57. Locomotive Number 2 of the San Juan Coal & Coke Company at La Ventana

58. Cleary Mine of the San Juan Coal & Coke Company, circa 1930 - 1932

59. Loading chute at Anderson Mine, west of La Ventana; October 27, 1973

60. Site of Anderson Mine, west of La Ventana; October 27, 1973

61. Abandoned hulk of San Juan Coal & Coke Company locomotive Number 2, circa 1938

62. Looking south from the Anderson Mine near La Ventana

63. The approach to the first tunnel in Guadalupe Box

64. Locomotive Number 101, a 2-6-2 type, of the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway

65. Locomotives 101 and 103 at the scene of the derailment of Number 103's tender

66. Santa Fe Northwestern Railway locomotive Number 107

67. A 3T Heisler, locomotive Number 105, of the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway

68. An American Hoist and Derrick diesel loader working at O'Neil Landing

69. Pawling and Harnischfeger (P&H) tracked loader working at O'Neil Landing

70. Bachelor quarters at O'Neil Landing during the winter shutdown, circa 1939

71. Workers in camp at O'Neil Landing circa 1939

72. A log dump and several shanties at O'Neil Landing, circa 1939

73. Dumping a truck load of 16-foot logs at O'Neil Landing

74. Joe Goldberg reading in his bunk shack at O'Neil Landing, circa 1939

75. Work area at O'Neil Landing, circa 1939

76. Working on a Caterpillar tractor at O'Neil Landing

77. Kenworth and White log trucks at O'Neil Landing, circa 1939

78. Loading 32-foot logs at O'Neil Landing with crane and peavey

79. The truck repair shop area at O'Neil Landing, circa 1939

80. The truck repair shop at O'Neil landing, circa 1939

81. Don Curnutte, logging superintendent, in a quiet moment at O'Neil Landing

82. Walter Giles, the cook at O'Neil Landing

83. James F. Cooke at the O'Neil Landing truck shop, circa 1939

84. Track maintenance man Melisandro Martinez with his "speeder" or track motor car

85. A railroad section-car posed on one of the tall trestles along the Rio Guadalupe

86. Santa Fe Northwestern Railway locomotive Number 101 switching log cars

87. Log loader and crew at work during the summer of 1939 at O'Neil Landing

88. Lumber company employees aboard a railroad speeder

89. A mechanic looks over the damage to locomotive Number 101

90. A diesel American Hoist and Derrick loader at O'Neil Landing

91. T. P. Gallagher. Jr., as a young man. "oiling around" the running gear

92. A Bucyrus-Erie Loadmaster at work in the woods

93. Unloading Class Lg-1 log cars at the Bernalillo millpond

94. A Caterpillar tractor skidding a very large log with a Hyster steel arch

1. Officers of Companies Connected With the Timber Operation

2. Santa Fe Northwestern Railway Rolling Stock, June 1931

3. Telephone Rings for New Mexico Timber Company

4. Officers of the New Mexico Lumber and Timber Company

5. Locomotives of the Santa Fe Northwestern Railway

6. Locomotives of the San Juan Coal & Coke Company