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<\/a><\/p>\nGreasy, covered in their hard work, the men were machinists and boilermakers who kept the railroad running from 1920 through the 1960s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey restored as many as 40 locomotives, and each one weighed as much as a million pounds,\u201d Freed said.<\/p>\n
Freed said the men\u2019s work brought bigger things to Albuquerque.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe railroad came and it built Albuquerque,\u201d Freed said. \u201cHad the railroad not come, we really think that Albuquerque would never have become a city.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leon Padilla of Bernalillo said his grandfather and uncles are in the photograph.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember seeing the locomotives in the shop over there when I came to visit my grandfather,\u201d Padilla said.<\/p>\n
Dennis Baca, a retired railroad worker from Los Lunas, said he wants to know who the men are so their stories can be recorded.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce that history is dead, we will never see it,\u201d Baca said.<\/p>\n
Baca said the group has had some success identifying people in the photo.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the rail market one day, I saw a man who picked up the photo and he had tears in his eyes and he says, \u2018I know this guy,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Who is that?\u2019 He said, \u2018That\u2019s me,\u2019\u201d Baca said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people may have the old railroad records. They may have a lantern. They may have a photo of their grandpa,\u201d Freed said.<\/p>\n
Items that might be buried in a box could be pieces of history that belonged to the railroad or evidence of someone who played an instrumental role in keeping the trains running, Freed said.<\/p>\n
The picture is at a booth every Sunday at the rail yard farmers market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe have a photo of many of the men who worked in the shops. They\u2019re on a locomotive, and we would love to identify the men,\u201d said Leba Freed, the president of the WHEELS Transportation Museum in Albuquerque. \u201cSadly, they\u2019re gone now, but we are hoping many of the family members would be able to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}