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The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter rail system serving the metropolitan areas of Albuquerque and Santa Fe,New Mexico. It is administered by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) and the Rio Metro Regional Transit District,a regional transportation agency,while Herzog Transit Services currently holds the contract for the operation and maintenance of the line &equipment. Phase I of the system,operating on an existing right-of-way from Belen to Bernalillo that NMDOT purchased from BNSF Railway,opened in July 2006. Phase II,the extension of the line to Santa Fe,opened in December 2008. Daily ridership,as of February 2019,was 2,200 trips per day. In 2023,the system had a ridership of 584,400,or about 2,800 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
The El Camino Real Historic Trail Site was a center about the culture and history about the El Camino Real trail and the colonization of New Mexico. The center,an official New Mexico Historic Site,opened in 2005 and closed in 2016. The Center featured exhibit panels and artifacts about the people who traveled along the trail,the desert and life in the 18th century.
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Area code 575 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of New Mexico. The area code was created in 2007 in an area code split of area code 505,whose service area was reduced to the Albuquerque,Santa Fe,Farmington,and Gallup regions to provide more telephone numbers to the most populated parts of the state. Area code 575 serves the rest of the state.
The Mogollon-Datil volcanic field is a large silicic volcanic field in western New Mexico. It is a part of an extensive Eocene to Oligocene volcanic event which includes the San Juan volcanic field in southwestern Colorado,the Trans-Pecos volcanic field in west Texas and north central Mexico,the Boot Heel volcanic field in the bootheel of southwestern New Mexico and adjacent areas of Arizona and Mexico;and the vast volcanic field of the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico. The Mogollon-Datil volcanic field was formed in "four discrete pulses representing synchronized activity of two separate cauldron complexes".
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Don L. Tripp is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives for District 49 from January 1999 to 2017.
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The 2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of New Mexico,concurrently with the election of New Mexico's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives and various local elections. This was one of eight Republican-held governorships up for election in a state carried by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Maggie Toulouse Oliver is an American politician from the state of New Mexico. She is the 26th Secretary of State of New Mexico and a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to serving as Secretary of State,Toulouse Oliver was the county clerk for Bernalillo County. On April 24,2019,Toulouse Oliver declared her candidacy for the 2020 U.S. Senate election,but she later withdrew.
The Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Depot in Magdalena,New Mexico was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Melanie Ann Stansbury is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district since 2021. The district includes most of Albuquerque and most of its suburbs. A Democrat,Stansbury was formerly a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from the 28th district.
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