What's up, I've got another 16 hours on this train to LA, pls ama/or tell me litcheraallly anything I am bored

Thanks to curieously for sending this great red adobe home. I like it in red! Built in 1920 in Raton, New Mexico it has 3bds, 3ba, $1.074M.

What a cool door. This is nice- I like the step up into the dining room.

Very spacious living room. I always wondered what an adobe house would like if it was painted in colors. Look at log beams in the ceiling.

The dining room is lovely.

Beautiful kitchen. I like the original cabinetry.

Sunny yellow dining area off the kitchen.

Nice big family room.

Love the floor in the sun room that opens to a patio.

The is nice, the primary bedroom has an alcove with a built-in closet wall.

Cute bath with slipper tub.

The 2nd bedroom is a good size and also has a built-in closet wall.

Original tiles and medicine chest in this bath.

The property is huge - 42 acres. The building on the right is a bunkhouse with 2bds and a bath.

The bunkhouse is a fairly large residence.

The barn and stables are ready for new residents.

The buildings only take up part of the 42 acres. It's a huge piece of property.

https://www.redfin.com/NM/Raton/475-Stevens-Ave-87740/home/132415921

One of our favorite things is the extended storm season over the High Plains. While people typically associate months like April and May with tornado season, the enterprising and budget conscious storm chaser can stretch the season through August. In this day in early July, a supercell formed off of the Southern Rockies and moved east and prompted a tornado warning. The Raton Mesa area is notoriously difficult to chase in, you basically have to choose to chase on one side or the other, except sometimes when a storm is visible over Johnson Mesa on the CO/NM state line east of Raton. #supercell #weather #science #stormchasing #naturelover

hi! i was wondering if you had any information on trains anywhere in new mexico? trying to get across the country and right now it seems like my only option is greyhounds

The Southwest Chief runs through Albuquerque as well as Gallup, Winslow, Las Vegas, NM, and Raton and the Sunset Limited passes throught the southern part of the state at Lordsburg and Deming and thats about it right now

Sunset on the 706 Semaphores por Christopher Parma Por Flickr: It's Golden Hour on the plains of northern New Mexico as the Southwest Chief splits the semaphores at MP 706 of BNSF's Raton Subdivision. The blades would be removed and replaced near the end of 2021. A 4 1 05A (EB Southwest Chief) AMTK P40DC #821 AMTK P42DC #18 Springer, NM January 6th, 2020

Raton NM, RA Clayton #motel

City of Raton, NM

Moss Adventures HQ - Raton, NM - #MossExpeditions #MossBasecamp #MossAdventures #MossTents

there are other abduction cases involving the mutilation of animals by beings that don’t look like the cat-eyed beings. In fact, what appear to be the Controllers of smaller entities are often tall humanoids, sometimes seen in long, white robes, even with hoods over their heads. Government documents have described smaller beings referred to as “extraterrestrial biological entities,” or EBEs, and another group called the “Talls.” Some people in the human abduction syndrome think the EBEs and the Talls are at war with each other — but not with bullets. The impression is that these E. T.s war through deceptive mind control and manipulation of time lines.

Perhaps deception and time warps are why there is so much confusion in the high strangeness of encounters with Other Intelligences, the variety of non-human physical appearances, and lack of consistent communication by the entities about who they are, where they are from, and why they are on planet Earth lifting people from cars and bedrooms, or animals from backyards and pastures in beams of light.

While Judy Doraty’s May 1973 encounter with her teenage daughter near a pasture outside Houston, Texas, involved the cat-eyed beings and mutilation of a calf on board the craft in front of Judy, there was another abduction experience seven years later in the first week of May 1980 near a Cimarron, New Mexico, pasture.Purple map pointer marks Cimarron, New Mexico, northwest of Taos. Santa Fe and Los Alamos are marked by larger red circles in lower left of map while all the other red circles mark places of multiple animal mutilations in the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, Dulce, Chama, Espanola, Questa, Taos, Las Vegas and Raton, New Mexico. Across the northern border into Colorado, other red circles at multiple mutilation sites are in Pagosa Springs, Alamosa, Walsenburg and Trinidad. The first worldwide-reported mutilation case was a mare named Lady found in September 1967, near Alamosa, Colorado, dead and stripped of flesh from the chest up and all the chest organs surgically removed.Lady, a 3-year-old Appaloosa mare, owned by Nellie and Berle Lewis, who had a ranch in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado near Alamosa. Lady was found September 8, 1967, dead and bloodlessly stripped of flesh from the neck up. All her chest organs had also been “surgically” removed, according to John Altshuler, M. D. who examined the mutilated horse. Lady’s hoof tracks stopped about 100 feet southeast of her body where it looked like she had jumped around in a circle as if trying to escape something. There were no tracks around Lady’s body, but 40 feet south of her was a broken bush. Around the bush was a 3-foot-diameter circle of 6 or 8 holes in the ground about 4 inches across and 3 to 4 inches deep. Photograph taken three weeks after Lady’s death by Don Anderson.

Posted on December 30, 2022 © 2023 by Linda Moulton Howe

Part 2: Hall of Mirrors with A Quicksand Floor

“The brightest, whitest light I’ve ever seen. How can it fly like that? What is it? Oh, I’m scared. How can they be doing that — killing that cow? It’s not even dead! It’s alive!”

– Female abductee at cattle mutilation site, Cimarron, NM, May 1980

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But there are other abduction cases involving the mutilation of animals by beings that don’t look like the cat-eyed beings. In fact, what appear to be the Controllers of smaller entities are often tall humanoids, sometimes seen in long, white robes, even with hoods over their heads. Government documents have described smaller beings referred to as “extraterrestrial biological entities,” or EBEs, and another group called the “Talls.” Some people in the human abduction syndrome think the EBEs and the Talls are at war with each other — but not with bullets. The impression is that these E. T.s war through deceptive mind control and manipulation of time lines.

Perhaps deception and time warps are why there is so much confusion in the high strangeness of encounters with Other Intelligences, the variety of non-human physical appearances, and lack of consistent communication by the entities about who they are, where they are from, and why they are on planet Earth lifting people from cars and bedrooms, or animals from backyards and pastures in beams of light.

The following excerpts are from May 1980 hypnosis sessions with a young boy and his mother who saw humanoids mutilating a cow in a Cimarron pasture followed by an abduction of them both. The hypnosis sessions began on May 11, 1980, when Leo Sprinkle, Director of Counseling and Testing at the University of Wyoming, received a phone call from scientist Paul Bennewitz, who was investigating the mother and son abduction for the Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization (APRO).

Raton, NM, to Amarillo, Tx. | American Truck Simulator

Nearly hit a deer in Raton nm

photo: Weaver Coal Mine - McKinley County, NM

http://www.miningartifacts.org/New-Mexico-Mines.html 

Coal mining in New Mexico has been vital during the past century. In a state where many regions are short of wood for fuel, it can be assumed that coal was used, but records have not been kept of the usage of so common an item. The army used coal during the Civil War, and even Texas ranchers were forced to bring in wagonloads of coal for fuel. The coming of the railroads between 1879 and 1882 put coal production on a firm footing. The first area opened was in Colfax County near Raton, and this district traditionally led the state in production. In 1882 the railroad reached Gallup, and existing mines in the neighborhood were promptly put into production to supply most of the coal used by locomotives en route to California.

When coal mining was at its peak, the Raton field and the portion of the San Juan Basin near Gallup accounted for about 90 per cent of the state’s total coal output, although mines throughout the state were worked to supply local needs. One example, mines in Lincoln County employed 300 men to produce over 120,000 tons of coal in 1902. At its production peak, in 1918, the coal industry in New Mexico produced more than 4,000,000 tons of coal per year from sixty-one mines and employed 5,000 workers. Heaton, also called Camp Heaton, was a coal-mining company town in Heaton Canyon, about 3 miles northeast of Gallup. Its post office opened in 1909 and closed in 1922. The coal mine at Heaton was operated by the Gallup American Coal Company. The community was founded in the early 1900's, and was abandoned when the mine closed. Nothing remains of Heaton today as its buildings were moved to nearby Gamerco, which was also ran by the Gallup American Coal Company. Four miles west of Gallup, was once the small town of Mentmore, New Mexico. The town began in 1913, when the Dilco Coal Mine was opened by the Direct Coal Company. Originally the camp was also named Dilco, but whan a post office was established the name became Mentmore. In 1918, George Kaseman of Albuquerque purchased the Dilco Mine property and the Morris Mine located a mile to the north. He combined the properties under the name of the Defiance Coal Company. When the mines closed at Mentmore in 1952, the town closed too. The opening of the Navajo coal mine by the American Fuel Company produced the camp of Navajo. Small frame houses were supplied to the residents by the company. A store and a hotel operated at the camp for a few years. About 1922, the Gallup American Coal Company sank the shaft at Gamerco, less than a mile west of Navajo, and the center of coal mining activity shifted there. The Navajo Mine closed, but many of the miners stilled lived in the camp while working at Gamerco. The Gallup American Coal Company began sinking shafts into coal deposits north of Gallup in 1920, and two years later the newly formed camp of Gamerco witnessed hoisting of the first coal. Even before mining was underway the town was platted, and the Gallup American Coal Company moved abandoned homes from Heaton, and Navajoe, both nearby coal camps ran by the company, to Gamerco, in addition to new ones that were being constructed. In the 1960’s, the mines were closed and Gamerco died. Allison, New Mexico, located on a coal belt just northwest of Gallup, once flourished as a coal mining camp. The mine was first opened by a man named Gus Mulholland and later worked by Andrew Casna. However, when Casna was killed at the mine, presumably by Indians, his aggrieved widow fled to Germany. Her failure to keep up the development work necessary to retain her husband's claim resulted in a filing on the mine site by F. J. Allison and W. A. Patching in 1897. It was then that the town took its name for F.J. Allison. Allison was a company-owned town like most of the others in McKinley County. Employees lived in the small frame homes provided by the Diamond Coal Company. Allison was a company-owned town like most of the others in McKinley County. Employees lived in the small frame homes provided by the Diamond Coal Company. The town reported a population of five hundred in 1922, a company store, a meat market, post office, school, doctor and a sheriff. During its heyday Clarkville was an important lignite coal mining camp operated by the Clark Coal Company. The camp, founded in 1898, was named for its owner, W.A. Clark, a well-known Butte, Montana mining magnate. The mine was equipped with an electrical plant and a ten-ton electric locomotive that propelled the coal cars. Telephone connections ran between the mine and the town. In 1905, Clarkville had 400 residents, but two years later it had decreased to 200. Dawson, originally a mining town founded in 1901 when rancher John Barkley Dawson sold his coal-rich land in northern New Mexico to the Dawson Fuel Company. The Dawson Railway was built connecting the town to Tucumcari, New Mexico. The mines were productive, and by 1905 the town boasted a population of nearly 2000.  In 1905, 124 coke ovens were belching fire and the town of Dawson was thriving with about 2000 residents and numerous businesses. In 1906, the mines were purchased by the Phelps Dodge Corporation. The corporation needed to attract workers to the remote location, so they built homes for the miners, along with numerous other facilities including a hospital, department store, swimming pool, movie theater, and a golf course. With these amenities, Phelps Dodge was able to maintain a stable employment rate despite the inherent dangers of mining and the isolation of northern New Mexico. In total, the Dawson coal operations had ten mines, numbered 1 -10 in the immediate vicinity of Dawson. In 1913, Stag Canyon No 2 Mine at Dawson, New Mexico was the 2nd worst coal mining disaster in U.S. History, claiming 263 lives. Dawson did not become a ghost town until 1950, when the Phelps Dodge Corporation shut down the mines. At closure, Mine 6 was the largest producer, and several other mines had been previously closed out because of declining demand. Located just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the mineral rich Ortiz Mountains, Madrid is in the oldest coal mining region in New Mexico. There is evidence of primitive mining in the Madrid area as early as the mid-1850's. By 1892 the yield from a narrow valley known as "Coal Gulch" was large enough to warrant the construction of a 6.5 mile standard gauge railroad spur, connecting the area to the main line of Santa Fe Railroad. Coal Gulch later became the town site of Madrid. By 1893 a seven story anthracite breaker was constructed, and by 1899 all coal production in the area was consolidated at Madrid. Wood framed cabins were dismantled in Kansas and brought to Madrid by train, to house the miners and their families. The town flourished as a "Company Town" of some 2500 people.

Today’s Aerial Photos - Volcanic Cones We flew over these volcanic cones in far southeast Colorado, very close to the Raton-Capulin Volcanic Field. I suspect they may be a continuous part of that area. If you haven’t been, Capulin is a really neat part of Northeast NM. You can drive up one of the cones and it is far higher than you realize! https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRMUrlO9y4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Supercell over Johnson Mesa east of Raton, NM.

Raton, NM 2020  shot box speed using specialty film call JCH Street Pan 400.  Home developed, D76 1:1,  50mm prime, Canon F1.  A bit of different move on post production: scanned as normal, and I tweaked using Color Efex Pro 4 from my Nik collection (as opposed to Silver Efex), which I do sometimes just to mix it up.  I have no idea what kind of car this is.  I generally don’t even notice, which I’m sure is blasphemy in some circles. 

Grand opening for my newest store!