Amtrak’s Southwest Chief flew through Bernalillo recently making less of a roar and more of a whoosh. Roller-bearing axles and welded track instead of bolted sections will do that as steel wheels polish steel rails. The old-timey clickity-clack of track noise vanished some years ago, but now another sound is missing: locomotive air horns. Gone […]
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Avocado Quest Rescues Family Chile Roasters
With the season for chile roasting fast approaching, the Morales family knew their produce business had a problem: no home and no place to roast. Since opening Fresh for Less Produce in Bernalillo five years ago, they managed to survive the reconstruction of U.S. Highway 550 barely 10 feet from their front door. And as […]
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The Atomic Age arrived by way of Bernalillo
With World War II still raging in the Pacific, anyone in Bernalillo awake in the wee hours of July 12 or July 13, 1945, would pay little heed to two short Army convoys passing heading south. Some in the caravan were military personnel, most notably a woman at the wheel of a dark-colored sedan in […]