Palmer Lake, Colorado provides a variety of scenic vantage points to shoot trains that run through the town. The Joint Line is one of the most active lines, handling coal trains running full tow... (more)

Coal is still king for now on the Joint Line in Colorado. Here is a loaded southbound coal approaching Larkspur Colorado on the Joint Line, named such as it handles both Union Pacific and BNSF tr... (more)

Grinstein Executive MAC BNSF 9658 belches smoke as it starts up in the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.

Executive MAC BNSF 9621 lashes up to a freight in the North Yard in Fort, Collins, Colorado and will take the cars to the BNSF yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

A pair of Executive Grinstein MACs run light towards the BNSF yard in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Amtrak engine #19 has just blasted through a four foot snow drift as it runs through Coal Creek Canyon on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

A frosty RTD light rail train #225 pulls into the Oxford Street Station as it heads south towards Littleton, Colorado.

BNSF 8117 (ES44C4) pulls a GEO train through Monument, Colorado on the Joint Line.

BNSF 9042 (SD70ACe) leads a freight towards Boulder, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.

Storm clouds are brewing as BNSF 7985 (ES44C4) leads a 10 engine consist and a long freight as it climbs the grade towards Sedalia, Colorado.

BNSF ACe 9295 climbs the grade between Castle Rock and Larkspur on the southbound track of the Joint Line.

Recently refurbished light power wait in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver. UP 700 was built in 1980 as a GP38-2 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

A ghostly BNSF 5152 (Dash9) runs a freight through heavy fog and light snow as it passes Plainview, Colorado.

BNSF 6246 (ES44AC) is on a siding in Union, Colorado, waiting to help any train that needs an assist over the Palmer Divide between Greenland and Monument.

BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) pulls a mixed freight towards Palmer Lake on the Joint Line