Waldo, New Mexico

Waldo, New Mexico
Waldo, New Mexico
ghost town
	Waldo sign along the BNSF tracks
	Waldo, New Mexico
	Coordinates: 35°27′02″N 106°08′52″W / 35.45056°N 106.14778°W
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
County	Santa Fe
Elevation	5,640 ft (1,720 m)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
Area code	505
GNIS feature ID	918402

Waldo is a ghost town in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.^[1]

Description

The community was created along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway just west of Cerrillos. Today little remains, although the name appears on a freeway exit on Interstate 25, some distance to the west. Today, Waldo is a siding along the line of the BNSF Railway, which is part of the former Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Waldo was at the junction of the AT&SF main east–west line and the Madrid spur. There were coke ovens in Waldo, supplied by coal from Madrid. The spur itself no longer exists. The ovens were on the south side of the rail line, and the town on the north. The rail line parallels the Galisteo River.