BNSF's twice weekly Pikes Peak Local to south of Colorado Springs is only two miles from the end of the fifty plus mile climb south out of Denver and was passing the "sag", a short streatch of nea... (more)

BNSF mty hoppers, head north on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF mty hoppers, head north on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF mty hoppers, head north on the Joint Line, with the Palmer Lake in the foreground. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

ATSF freight at Palmer lake after sundown

A Southbound train of empty double stack containers snakes its way out of the "sag" and heads toward the summit of the grade at Palmer Lake.

BNSF 5860 (ES44AC) passes through Palmer Lake and heads to Monument, Colorado

A northbound BNSF manifest passing Palmer Lake last summer when it still had water in it. Today the lake is dry and may never return as it was.

The rear DPU of a northbound empty coal train passes through Spruce as the train begins the descent toward Denver.

BNSF empty coal heads north while BNSF southbound full coal awaits for clearing north of Palmer Lake.

Northbound UP coal empty passing Palmer Lake

Southbound BNSF coal train climbing towards Palmer Lake on the normal northbound only main two passing the first intermediate signal nothr of Palmer Lakeon the northbound only signalled line

BNSF Pikes Peak Local heading south on the Joint Line at the "sag" a couple miles north of Palmer Lake

BNSF 8781 North grinds upgrade as it nears the top of the climb at Palmer Lake on the Joint Line.

A LORAM rail grinding train waits for the green signal before passing through Palmer Lake