Just before entering Vaughn, US 60 joins US 54 then bridges over the tracks at the east end of Vaughn. Extra 5043 West is on the older section of double track that ran east from Vaughn to Joffre. The train is about to go under the US 54 and 60 bridge on June 16, 1979. That is highway 285 off to the right.

It is early morning on May 18, 1978 at Vaughn. A train is waiting for Extra 5056 East to clear so it can continue west to Belen. Vaughn is at milepost 788. and the elevation is 5,925 feet. Vaughn is the only town in New Mexico where the main lines of two railroads cross one another. Disk 60

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