Loaded Reliant Energy (HLP) coal train is drifting & snaking down to the single track at sunset, the head end is actually the set of motors in the distance. The motors in the foreground, passing ... (more)

A little Mexican variety on the Rio Grande passing a frozen Palmer Lake.

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

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)

After waiting for a northbound SD75M-led manifest to clear off the single track, BNSF 9227 is underway southbound, this time descending down the Palmer Divide. This train will meet a northbound a... (more)

A BNSF coal load crests the summit of the Palmer Divide. From this perspective you can see the many curves used to crest the summit from the south. the dirt trail on the opposite side of the lake ... (more)

3 units on the rear end of a southbound coal load seen passing Palmer Lake.