BNSF 9669 leads a North Antelope Mine to Holcomb, KS (Sunflower Electric Power Plant) coal train up the slight grade out of Keenesburg, CO. Even though the grade is only 0.7% at this location, coa... (more)

A BNSF warbonnet and CP motor lead an empty windmill train down the Palmer Divide as it crosses over the Rio Grande bridge at Monument.

An empty windmill train crest over the 7,200' summit of Palmer Lake with BNSF Warbonnet and a CP ES44AC lead the train. In the background, a summer thunderstorm hits the Castle Rock/ Larkspur area... (more)

An Eagle Butte Mine coal train grinds up the grade of Colorado's Joint Line as it crosses over the Santa Fe bridge at Larkspur.

A pair of EMD SD70ACe pump out heavy smoke as they get their 17,500 ton coal train moving on a 1.4% grade of Spruce as the DP motors of an empty coal train head north on main track 2.

One of the Joint Lines 'rescue motors", BNSF 9026, sits idle in the spur track of Spruce with a pair of bad order coal cars coupled behind it. Normally, a lone BNSF locomotive waits in the sp... (more)

The sights and sounds of a summer thunderstorm have been silenced by the powerful roar of EMD and GE prime movers as they grind away on wet steel rail. Over 17,000 tons of North Antelope Mine coal... (more)

A loaded Comanche train grinds up the 0.6% grade of Keenesburg. The vast open landscape of the Brush Sub is on full display here as late summer thunderstorms forms in the background.

Black Thunder Mine, WY to Comanche XCEL Power Plant (Pueblo), CO coal train pulls out of the sag at Crest as it powers west across the open range of eastern Colorado.

Mid America Energy (Council Bluffs, IA) empties head west across the Sand Hill Subs towards Alliance and onward to the coal fields of the Powder River Basin.

A lone SD70MAC, sporting the BN executive paint scheme, brings up the rear of an empty coal train near Ellsworth, NE.

The setting Nebraska sun illuminates the side of a Antelope Mine, WY coal train that is bound for MidAmerican Energy (Lousia) Ottumwa, IA. With over 19,000 tons on the drawbar, six AC traction mo... (more)

An Omaha Public Power (Arbor, NE) empty coal train heads westward towards the Buckskin Mine as it traverse the Sand Hill Sub at Ashby.

KCSM 4081 leads the Laurel, MT to Denver, CO manifest train as it takes the siding at Broomfield. On the main track, an Amarillo, TX to Denver, CO manifest waits for a new warrant to head north to... (more)

KCSM 4081 leads the H LAUDEN9 23A as it's tied down in the siding at Broomfield. In the background, KCSM 4761 is the DP motor of the U CPFFCL0 11T as it gets fueled up for the short trip to Fort C... (more)