A pair of ACes brings up the rear of this northbound coal empty as it snakes into Castle Rock.

It's hard to believe this photo was taken in 2011, especially considering the lead unit of the Pikes Peak Local is 48-years-old and the second unit, BNSF 1514, is 54-years-old! I wonder if EMD ev... (more)

A colorful Pikes Peak Local steams south into Larkspur behind a 48-year-old GP30 rebuild still looking good in Burlington Northern paint!

MAC'd up DPUs bring up the rear of an empty coal train as it glides into Larkspur on a surprisingly, against-forecast sunny afternoon.

BNSF 9260 leads a string of empty hoppers north into Larkspur in front the appropriately named Larkspur Butte. 48 hours earlier, I caught this train working through Palmer Lake fully loaded.

BNSF 9786 spews a misty haze of smoke as it leads coal loads south across the famous Santa Fe bridge in Larkspur. More info at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD70MAC
Location: Larkspur, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 9786
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 17, 2011

A nice ACe leader brings coal into Greenland under interesting skies.

BNSF 9260 leads an older EMD relative south with loaded coal, seen here just after they "summited" the Joint Line between Denver and Pueblo.

BNSF 6004 and BNSF 6400 pull coal loads up the hill into Larkspur.

Coal loads pull south through Greenland on a warm winter afternoon.

An ACe and a MAC strain to bring coal loads uphill into Larkspur. Amazingly, it's 28 December, and the Front Range has seen little-to-no snow by this point...but that would change just 2 days lat... (more)

It's so good to see EMD's first-generation widecabs running the rails again for BNSF. Here the H-LAUAMA beats feet south into Colorado Springs.

A nice BNSFbonnet leads a manifest train south into the Air Force Academy.

I like those trains from Montana...they put the good power out front! A clean BNSFbonnet leads a high-priority Laurel, MT- Amarillo, TX manifest around the namesake lake in Palmer Lake. Learn mo... (more)

A UP autorack train works south on the Joint Line. It's weird to think of a UP train as being a "rarity" on UP trackage, but other than a couple of coal trains and a back-and-forth manifest (whic... (more)