“We have a photo of many of the men who worked in the shops. They’re on a locomotive, and we would love to identify the men,” said Leba Freed, the president of the WHEELS Transportation Museum in Albuquerque. “Sadly, they’re gone now, but we are hoping many of the family members would be able to identify them.”
Greasy, covered in their hard work, the men were machinists and boilermakers who kept the railroad running from 1920 through the 1960s. “They restored as many as 40 locomotives, and each one weighed as much as a million pounds,” Freed said. If you can identify someone in the photo, please call the museum at (505) 243-6269
Hello My great grandfather (Jesus Mena) worked for the rail road and from my understanding he was also housed there where he met my great grandmother (Mary Montanto Mena) its on a couple of census records and my family also shared that fact. I have no pictures of him.
My grandfather, Clarence Milford Saunders, worked in the Albuquerque Railyard Shops as a machinist in the 1920’s. My mother gave me a copy of the picture that you have on your website of the men on a locomotive who worked in the shops. My mother said that my grandfather was in the picture, but I could never make him out. My uncle, E. Young, also worked in the Albuquerque Railyards. Could you please provide me with any information that you have on either my grandfather or my uncle?