BNSF 8430 slugs up grade with black diamonds through fresh snow on the Joint Line in Larkspur, CO.

Eighteen thousand horsepower, provided by five SD40-2’s and a C30-7, have been assigned by the Burlington Northern to get this manifest over the road. The train is seen here cruising northward t... (more)

BNSF 8414 leads a ubiquitous loaded coal drag south on the famed Joint Line over the Santa Fe bridge in Larkspur, CO on a lovely Rocky Mountain fall day.

BNSF 6413 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train over the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF 9061 (SD70ACe) leads a load of coal along Interstate 25 as it heads to Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF ACe 9061 passes a rock outcrop in Larkspur as it gets ready to cross the Santa Fe trestle.

BNSF 9061 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train over the Sante Fe bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.

An ACe and a MAC pull a heavy coal train over the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe bridge in Larkspur, Colorado

BNSF 9337 (SD70ACe) shoves a coal train up the steep grade from Larkspur to Palmer Lake, Colorado, passing over the old Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe bridge. The roughly 20 mile stretch from Castl... (more)

BNSF 6413 (ES44AC) muscles a coal train up the grade towards Larkspur, Colorado.

A spring snow storm begins to drop snow in Larkspur, Colorado as a BNSF coal train heads over the Santa Fe bridge on the south end of town.

HLMX unit coal train passes under Interstate 25

Southbound coal loads cross the Santa Fe bridge in Larkspur, CO.

Oakway Leasing 9021 crosses Spruce Mountain Road near Larkspur, CO on the Joint Line in June of 1989. As I recall, I was stranded in Kenosha Pass for a few hours due to 2" of hail from a T-st... (more)

It's August and, yes, that's snow and hail on the ground as a southbound coal train climbs the grade towards Palmer Lake and points south.