As the terrain was so harsh it was difficult to move people, stock and freight around the surrounding states until the railway came and revolutionised the townships in New Mexico and Arizona. Still today Santa Fe is one of the USAs major rail hubs with huge freight trains stacked two containers high cutting through the town every 2 – 5 minutes.
The old station area home to the roadrunner passenger train has recently been transformed into a huge squid port with plenty of cafes, galleries and small tourist operators. Today the farmers and craft market was in. The smell of the roasting green chillies was amazing with most of the stalls selling chillies and of couse huge orange pumpkins for halloween.
