A short manifest growls upgrade into Castle Rock, CO on the BNSF/UP Joint Line as the train continues its assault out of Denver for points south.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) leads a freight through Palmer Lake on the Joint Line.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) leads a train through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) turns the corner leading into Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) runs a freight through Greenland, Colorado on the Joint Line.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) rounds the corner which leads into Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) leads a freight and two other units south on the Joint Line to Colorado Springs.

BNSF 8208 (ES44C4) holds on the Front Range Sub line near the Valmont Power Plant in Boulder, Colorado until the dispatcher gives them the track warrant to proceed further.

All Ready With Nowhere to Go... The crew of this eastbound stack train shuts the headlights of the BNSF 8208 completely off; indicating that their day is done. The crew had just started the... (more)

Rolling Meet: I had gotten word that a Z train with 2 Santa Fe SD75M's leading was coming westbound and while I waited to catch them I heard the detector to my west call out 500-some axles ... (more)

Z St. Paul - Chicago arrived the Cicero Intermodal Ramp with a nice pair of warbonnet SD75Ms.

Classic coal power has returned to the COB trains after a stint earlier this year with AC powered units leading the charge. Here a nice Warbonnet leads empties out of the yard and onto the wye fo... (more)

A classic trio of northern plains coal power has Clay Boswell empties rushing west through western Minnesota and past some fields of Sunflowers.

Here's the lash-up that we've been waiting for! Santa Fe Warbonnet SD75M 8208, a BNSF H2 Dash 9, a BNSF H1 SD40-2 and an Oakway SD60 highball a westbound stack train through Ransom!