A pair of BNSF SD70 types drag coal loads into Castle Rock, CO in the winter season's second "big" snow event.

IC 6250 lifts ore empties out of Two Harbors, bound for the Taconite plants of Minnesota's famed Mesabi Iron Range.

UP 1995 leads the Denver North Yard to Pueblo train into Castle Rock, CO.

A BNSF GEVO leads a southbound coal load out of Littleton of the Colorado Joint Line.

UP 1989 leads the Denver North Yard to Pueblo manifest south into Sedalia on former Rio Grande trackage. A nice addition is the former DRGW "No Trespassing" sign on the right side of the... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s round the curve with a short cut of autoracks destined for the Big Lift auto ramp, just a mile or so south from this location.

A former Burlington Northern SD40-2, dressed in the Whiteface scheme, handles the day's work on the Golden Switch on the job's namesake subdivision.

A BNSF ACe leads a southbound coal load through Castle Rock, CO on the Joint Line

An AC GEVO makes its way up grade into Larkspur, CO with a loaded coal train.

CN 2874 awaits a favorable signal to head north on CN's Superior Sub with nearly 10,000 ft. of train.

Two H1 SD40 types lead the twice weekly Pikes Peak Local into Sedalia on the Colorado Joint Line.

A southbound coal load approaches the crest of the Palmer Divide on the Colorado Joint Line as a light snow begins to fall.

BNSF 6007 disrupts Castle Rock, CO with a Herzog ballast train, a somewhat rare move on the Joint Line.

A northbound coal empty heads through Palmer Lake, and onto the double track on the Colorado Joint Line. An interesting note, I caught this train loaded heading south five days prior; the first ti... (more)

A KCS MAC in Southern Belle paint, an extremely rare leader on the Colorado Joint Line, leads northbound empty coal buckets into Castle Rock, Colorado.