Bernalillo New Mexico Rail Runner Windscreen Installations
Installation of Tempered Etched Glass Windbreak at Bernalillo Station for Large Structure, etched glass 60″ x 88″ (152cm x 224cm)
Installation of Tempered Etched Glass Windbreak at Bernalillo Station for Large Structure, etched glass 60″ x 88″ (152cm x 224cm)
Installation of Tempered Etched Glass Windbreak at Bernalillo Station for Large Structure, etched glass 60″ x 88″ (152cm x 224cm)
Installation of Tempered Etched Glass Windbreak at Bernalillo Station for Small Structure, etched glass 60″ x 88″ (152cm x 224cm)
Installation of Tempered Etched Glass Windbreak at Bernalillo Station for Small Structure, etched glass 60″ x 88″ (152cm x 224cm)
These are some of the windscreens for the Bernalillo, New Mexico, Rail Runner passenger station. Bernalillo, a town of nearly 7,000, is several miles north of Albuquerque, NM. When I was prowling around Bernalillo looking for imagery to use for the station windscreens, I discovered why the walls were so thick in The Range Café, a popular eatery on the main drag, Camino del Pueblo Road. They are made of adobe brick. Many of the older buildings in Bernalillo are adobe with modern building materials, like wood, brick and aluminum siding over the mud bricks. I chose the adobe brick as my theme for this station’s etched windscreens. There is an architectural gem on Rail Track Road, near the Burlington Northern Santa Fe track. The new passenger station stands only twenty yards from this roofless mud jewel melting slowly in the infrequent dessert rain. Adobe buildings usually do not stand on much of a foundation, but this two story building’s adobe three foot thick brick walls rest firmly on a 30 foot by 50 foot foundation of enormous rough cut limestone carted from the top of nearby Sandia Peak. Adobe construction is traditionally post and lintel, each component made from wood. But, in addition to the traditional building technique, this melting mud structure sports the occasional concrete lintel and post and a nicely executed brick arch. When I was photographing it, the building was totally open, the floors and roof having burned in a fire. Now, only yards from the Rail Runner Station, it is chain linked from the curious.
Posted by in 05:34:21
Chuck,
These are some wonderful pics of the NMRX windscreens. I have been riding the Railrunner to the Los Ranchos station since it opened and the windscreens have always been one of my favorite features of the stations.
I was saddened when the screens at Los Ranchos were destroyed by vandals this summer. I hope they get it replaced soon.
I enjoyed the Astor Piazzola tune also.
Brian
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