The hot Chicago to Denver Z3 races over the hogback of West Bijou as it over takes a coal load in the siding.

A pair of EMD SD70ACe pour heavy exhaust as they get back up to speed after holding at the "The Sag" for a northbound train.

A Caballo Mine to Holcomb, KS coal train holds at the approach signal to Palmer Lake, known as The Sag, as a northbound empty clears the single track section and heads back to the mines of the PRB... (more)

Slowly climbing the grade of the Palmer Divide, a loaded Comanche coal train passes through the cattle lands of Greenland.

More than 17,000 tons of Powder River Basin coal is on the drawbars of the BNSF 8458 as it grinds the last five miles towards the summit at Palmer Lake on near perfect spring afternoon.

An empty Comanche coal train is lead by a rebuilt SD70MAC as it heads north towards Denver on UP's Main 2 track along Colorado's BNSF/UP Joint Line. In the foreground, a BNSF locomotive sits in th... (more)

The last rays of sunlight reflect off of the nose of a BNSF 9725, a rebuilt SD70MAC, as it pulls an empty Comanche (XCEL Energy Colorado) coal train back towards the mines in Wyoming's Powder Rive... (more)

A 17,600 ton coal train from Eagle Butte Mine, WY to NRG (Headwaters Power Plant) Donnie, TX slowly crawls up the 1.4% grade of Spruce before reaching the summit of the Palmer Divide.

A coal load for Donnie, TX inches closer to the summit of the Palmer Divide on Colorado's Joint Line. Crawling at around 10 MPH, this 17,000 ton train loses a mile per hour, or two, due to a pesky... (more)

124 car loads of Rawhide Mine, WY coal are bound for Halsted, TX as they slowly traverse the Palmer Divide near Larkspur, CO. Four, six-axle locomotives battle the one to 1.4% grade of the norther... (more)

CP 8059 comes to a stop with its 14,000 ton grain train from Sweet Grass, MT as it hold the main track at Irondale after catching the line of trains waiting to get through Denver.

Rolling across the hogbacks of Tonville, CO, a Sweet Grass, MT to Fresno, CA grain train eases off the throttle to slow down and come to a stop at the west end of Tonville siding. This is due to m... (more)

CP 8059, and a UP SD70M, lead Sweet Grass, MT to Fresno, CA grain train across the farmlands of eastern Colorado along BNSF's Brush Sub at Keenesburg.

A GE AC4400CW and an EMD SD70MAC pull a 124 car loads of coal for Southwestern Public Service (Amarillo,TX) over the hill of Keenesburg along BNSF's Brush Sub.

A rare daylight appearance of the Ladora Turn starts to makes its way back to 31st Yard after servicing its primary customer of Suncor Energy in Commerce City.