BNSF 2548 (GP39-3) gets ready to run a string of oil cans from the terminal in Hudson, Colorado to the Commerce City refineries.

BNSF 5409 (Dash9) brings a Ferromex engine and a stack train through the BNSF Intermodal Facility in Denver Colorado. Notice the RTD commuter rail train in the background.

A Coors Brewing Company SW1001 muscles a load of grain cars towards the plant to make more beer at the Golden, Colorado facility.

The haze from last year's massive wildfires in the Colorado Rocky Mountains casts a red glow as the sunrise greets the California Zephyr on its run towards Denver.

BNSF Grinstein MAC #9709 stops to chat at a track maintenance crew working on the line to the BNSF Coors Brewing facility yard in Golden, Colorado.

BNSF 8787 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train over the Santa Fe Bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF 5826 (ES44AC) casts a reflection in the creek as it runs on the Joint Line northbound track through Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF 6288 (ES44AC) leads an empty coal on the Joint Line northbound track through Larkspur, Colorado.

RTD commuter rail train #4051 (Hyundai Eagle P3) drops down from the elevated track that parallels the BNSF engine service facility track.

A bright Easter morning sunrise reflects off the California Zephyr and the tracks of the Brush Sub as the #5 train passes through Roggen, Colorado on its way to Denver.

UP 6262 (a former Southern Pacific AC4400CW) runs through Coal Creek Canyon on the Moffat Tunnel Sub and heads towards the shadows of Blue Mountain.

Light power works the UP North Yard in Denver, Colorado. UP 1507 started life as a GP40 in 1969 for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, then was rebuilt as a GP40M-2 and worked for the Southern Paci... (more)

BNSF 8439 (SD70ACe) reflects off a creek on a sunny day as it crosses the Santa Fe Bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.

The BNSF engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado is crowded with mostly heavies as they wait for service or assignments.

There have been more sightings recently of Executive MAC's working coal trains. Here we see a pair of MAC's including Grinstein BNSF 9815 shoving an empty coal train back towards Denver on the Jo... (more)