George R.R. Martin, the famed author of the “Game of Thrones” fantasy series, has joined a group to buy the historic Santa Fe Southern Railroad.
Violet Crown cinema owner Bill Banowsky, National Dance Institute of New Mexico co-founder Catherine Oppenheimer and Martin recently purchased the decades-old railway and trains along the 18-mile (29-kilometre) spur line from Santa Fe to the community of Lamy, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Passenger excursion trains to Lamy ended in 2012 and some residents have been seeking ways to get them started again. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached Lamy in 1879.
Though it had been initially planned to roll into Santa Fe, railroad executives and engineers said it would be too difficult to
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