124 cars loads of black diamonds, pulled by four GE motors, slowly grind up the northern slope of Palmer Divide as they approach the 7,200' high summit on New Years Day 2020.

With the morning sun rising over the eastern parries, a pair of BNSF GEs motors descend down the Palmer Divide on empty grain shuttle as they traverse the last 45 miles of the trip into Denver. In... (more)

A pair AC GEVOs hold back 17,000 tons of coal for the Headwaters Power Plant in Donnie, TX down a 1.4% grade as it snakes through Monument, CO.

As a signal maintainer drives away from his work side for the day, an empty coal train approaches as it climbs the 1.5% grade over Palmer Lake (7,231 ft) which is less than a mile away.

Peaking out of the shadows, a Slaton, TX to Denver, CO manifest train starts to get up to speed down the northern slope of the Palmer Divide after climbing over the 7,200' summit. The train takes ... (more)

Three General Electric motors descend down the Palmer Divide, through Downtown Colorado Springs, with the Seattle, Q-train as an empty coal train holds the siding. While the the train is a classi... (more)

An Executive BN SD70MAC leads an empty coal train back to the Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming as it passes through Greenland along Colorado's Joint Line.

Nearing the end of climb out of Denver, UP 1989 roars into 1.4% grade of Larkspur with nearly 5,000 tons of train in tow.

The Rio Grande Heritage Unit has no problem pulling UP's Denver North Yard to Pueblo manifest train through Castle Rock as it races up the 1.3% grade towards the summit of the Palmer Divide (7,251... (more)

Traversing over the former Rio Grande track between Denver and Pueblo, CO, UP 1989 (the Rio Grande Heritage Unit) leads a southbound manifest train down the southern slope of the Palmer Divide alo... (more)

Sitting forlornly on Spruce Siding, near Palmer Lake, Colorado, is BNSF Railway ES44AC 5902. This locomotive was built by General Electric in February 2006, fourteen years before it was photograp... (more)

A 49-car military train heads to the US Army’s Fort Carson, not far ahead at Kelker, what the railroad calls the section of Colorado Springs where the connection to Ft. Carson is made. Despite th... (more)

Just south of the Spruce Siding, BNSF Railway loaded coal train C-ATMCRD0-19 passes between the old bridge abutments from a long-since removed Santa Fe bridge that crossed the original Denver & Ri... (more)

The Joint Line is a pair of parallel mainlines connecting Denver with Pueblo, about 120 miles to the south. One of these mainlines is the original 1980s-built Denver & Rio Grande Western line, wi... (more)

A loaded oil train descend down the Palmer Divide rumbles through Colorado Springs on a chilly December afternoon.