Clear as a bell along the Front Range today, as BNSF 4954 makes the curve around Palmer Lake on its way south.

Today BNSF was running trains against the normal flow of traffic as this northbound empty coal train is on the normal southbound main#1 usually carries southbound traffic shown just a mile or so n... (more)

Classic Grande on The Joint Line with a nice cupola caboose, coal, and grungy helpers. After assisting this train from Denver the helpers have cutoff and run around the caboose (the helpers were a... (more)

BNSF Pikes Peak Local passing through Palmer Lake, CO

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

southbound UP coal train Palmer Lake, CO

A father (left, behind the bush) and son clear off the ice at Palmer Lake in preparation for some hockey as BNSF 8849 and 5965 pass by. Shortly after the train passed by, the hockey sticks and pu... (more)

A southbound Union Pacific autorack train rolls through Palmer Lake, Colo. on the morning of August 13, 2010.

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)

Two LMX units bracket a GP60B as they crest the Palmer Divide enroute to Denver. Today this scene is no longer possible as the LMX units have been sold off and the red barn has been torn down.

BNSF's Pikes Peak Local passes Palmer Lake, CO on it's twice a week northbound trip from Colorado Springs to Denver

D&RGW southbound coaltrain en route to Pueblo

On what was a magnificient Saturday in Colorado BNSF 4701 with a loaded grain train in tow crests the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO and provides a nice reflection in the still, windless waters ... (more)