120 cars of Wyoming's Powder River coal are on the final leg of their journey to the Comanche Power Plant in Pueblo, CO as they battle the 1.5% grade of Orsa on Colorado's BNSF/UP Joint Line.
Looking more like the transcon than the unit coal train ridden Pikes Peak Sub. A 4-pack of GE’s stretch out between Sedalia and Castle Rock. The train had a large group of mostly Fed Ex Trailers... (more)
A pair of Rio Grande SD45's along with a pair of Burlington Northern SD40-2's head South with a loaded coal train destined for the power plant at Coletto Creek, TX
They used to be called sun kinks, and now known as a "thermal misalignment." This had occurred in the siding at Orsa, Colo. as an AT&SF passed on the Joint Line southbound main, Sept. 9, 1988.
Photo by Timothy Tonge from my collection.
Southbound coal load on Joint Line at Orsa
