A loaded grain train crest the 7,200' summit of the Palmer Divide on a a coal winter evening. With two GE motors in the lead, and four more on the rear, they'll try to control this 14,284 ton trai... (more)

ATSF 3712 leads a nine car train, ATSF 5, at Palmer Lake Colorado in 1929. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

BNSF ACe 9215 leads a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

BNSF 785 pulls a heavy manifest train north along Colorado's Joint Line as it is about to top over the 7200' summit of Palmer Lake during a fall sunset.

A Slaton, TX to Denver, CO manifest is led by three GE motors as they top over a snow covered Palmer Lake.

Fresh snow covers blankets the town of Palmer Lake as a southbound BNSF loaded coal train begins its descend down the southern slope of the Palmer Divide along Colorado's Joint Line.

BNSF 9002 pulls 124 car Rawhide Mine, WY to Donnie (Headwaters Power Plant), TX coal train over the 7200' high Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO during a late October snow storm.

BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train around Palmer Lake as it runs south on the Joint Line.

BNSF SD70MAC No. 9935 is a DPU on a SB loaded coal train as it heads down the S curve at Palmer Lake

BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) snakes through the S turns leading to Palmer Lake as it runs a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line.

BNSF 6220 slowly crest the summit of Palmer Lake, 7,200' above sea level, as it hauls 120 loaded coal cars to the Comanche Power Plant near Pueblo, CO.

A pair of DP motors help hold back a 17,000 ton coal train as it descends down the over 1% grade of the Palmer Divide between Palmer Lake and Monument.

The once daily Clovis, NM to Denver, CO manifest train crest over the top of the Palmer Divide as the fading sun dips behind the hills of the surrounding mountain town of Palmer Lake, CO.

An empty coal train from Springerville, AZ heads back to the Antelope Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin as the train approaches the top of Palmer Lake.

BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train through the 180-degree curve at Palmer Lake, Colorado.