Like AMtrak will pay any return. (pppfffttt)
Is it 90 lb rail?
And now will NM have a railroad maintenance division in its DOT to keep this part of the system up to standard?
Alaska used to own a Railroad, but we sold it (sort of). Now it is run by a quasi-state agency/private organization. The orgaization doesn't pay taxes but does manage to have derailments like "real" railroads.
It's the old Santa Fe mainline, so I imagine it's 112 lb, at least.
The state will pay BNSF to maintain it for freight (local and long distance coal from Colorado and occasional use when derailments close the main through the central part of the state) and Amtrak service. A lot of the line is still old, non-welded conventional rail with joints every thirty feet or so.