Lamy, New Mexico

USA / New Mexico / Lamy /
 village, railway junction
A small railway junction town named after an early Archbishop . The main railway line was going to go through Santa Fe and points West , until the engineers recognised the impracticality with the topography in the Santa Fe region . So the railway line to Santa Fe became a branch line . An excursion train runs between here and Santa Fe
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamy,_New_Mexico
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Coordinates:   35°28'48"N   105°52'53"W

Comments

  • Hometown! The bishop was Jean-Baptist Lamy (pronounced lah-mee, unlike the town, which is lay-mee), by the way.
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