An old coal veteran leads an ACe and a string of shiny and relatively new TILX hoppers around the bend just south of the Academy siding as a jogger tries to keep pace on the New Sante Fe trail jus... (more)

Final stretch on home tracks for the Hollis & Eastern before joining the BNSF Chickasha Sub to drop off and pick up.

BNSF 1590 leads the H-GFDNTW down the siding as the South Local keeps the main in Buxton. Not sure why in a hand-thrown siding environment a High Priority manifest takes the hole while a Local ke... (more)

Who says full service is a thing of the past?!? With Stop signage in place, EMDX 9040 waits for a final fill up on the last unit before departing.

BNSF 518 westbound leaving the yard heading for Alton to pick up a cut of empty fertilizer hoppers of the CSX variety. The footprints leading to the tracks are mine from where these units stopped... (more)

Elephant Dash 9s in the form of a clean H1 and a ratty Warbonnet lead a manifest southbound out of Monument.

A mighty Oak(way) leads a loaded coal drag into the yard off the Hillsboro Sub. Neat to see the 'GM' still intact...

An autorack train on the Joint Line?!? Well, not quite. We're just seeing the first part of a monster Amarillo, TX - Denver, CO priority mainfest. This train clocked in with 111 cars trailing o... (more)

With the blowoff from a thunderstorm looming overhead, BNSF 6871 heads south toward Fargo and potential safety. This is the second day in a row BNSF has routed a stack train from Minot to Grand F... (more)

MPPR 28 starts its descent off the summit of Pike's Peak and back to Manitou Springs. What a view!

Where have all the SD60s/SD60Ms/SD75Ms/SD75Is gone?!? That's all you used to see on coal trains up here, but the winds of change might have blown through on 'traditional' northern plains coal pow... (more)

About to make the turn to the south to run through the yard, HE 8170 makes it to Altus on its 13 mile journey from Duke.

Northbound coal empties accelerate to track speed after cresting the Palmer Divide on their way back to the mines. Learn more at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: Palmer Lake, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 5695
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 16, 2009

A lower priority stack train rounds the curve east of Hawley and adds some much-needed color to this otherwise barren, snowy landscape.

HE 8170 is earning its keep running Southern-style west toward Duke with 29 empties. Rumor has it Hollis & Eastern is looking for more power...