The Oscar Huber Ballpark was the first lighted ballpark west of the Mississippi in the 1920s. The Miners were started by the Madrid Employees Club and won many pennants. The railroad spur was removed shortly thereafter. By 1954 the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company ceased to operate and most of the residents moved away. In the late 1940s, the demand for coal withered: Natural gas gradually replaced coal as the preferred home-heating fuel, and the AT&SF was replacing its coal-fired steam locomotives with diesel-electrics. Since the town was for the next 80 years wholly owned by a series of corporations, the town itself was never incorporated. Madrid celebrated its 'founding' in 1895. More accurately the Cerrillos Coal Railroad transported-in, section by section, prefabricated wooden miner's cabins from as far away as Topeka, Kansas there were insufficient carpenters and suppliers in the region to provide the instant infrastructure that was needed for the town. At the site of Keeseeville, which the Cerrillos Coal Railroad co-opted, the town of Madrid was built. In late August 1892, the spur finally terminated at the relatively new mining camp of Keeseeville (an illegal trespass settlement, however one whose 20-acre plat had been approved by Santa Fe County). built the 6.25 mi (10.06 km) standard gauge spur from the AT&SF main line at Waldo Junction. developed the layout for the town, mines, and facilities, and the Cerrillos Coal Railroad Co. After a dozen years at the Coal Bank of wildcat, unpermitted, and unorganized mining the AT&SF acquired the property on December 10, 1891, and through purposefully-created subsidiaries solidified its control. The coal deposits were called the Cerrillos Coal Bank following the arrival in early 1880 of the New Mexico & Southern Pacific Railroad (as the AT&SF in New Mexico was organized), named after the nearby mining and railroad town of Cerrillos Station. Anthracite coal was preferred for passenger trains, as it burned cleaner. Anthracite coal breaker and power house buildings, Madrid, circa 1935.

Forever Man by A.J. DeWall