A trio of tunnel motors lift empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill from CN's Dock 6 in Duluth in a heavy lake effect snow storm.

A pair of Bessemer tunnel motors sandwich a widecab SD40-2 as they shove limestone loads through the hole track, under CN's Duluth ore docks, before they make the climb up Proctor Hill.

BNSF 9314 leads six other motors, including two CP GEs, south with cement empties on the Colorado Joint Line, as 14,259 ft. Longs Peak looms in the background.

BNSF's Golden Switch, behind two SD40-2s, disturbs the peace of a local cemetery as they make their way back to the job's namesake town on its namesake subdivision.

Elephant ACes lead a coal load out of the south end of Littleton, Colorado as the summer foliage starts to show its color.

A southbound coal load approaches the crest of the Palmer Divide on the Colorado Joint Line as a light snow begins to fall.

An eastbound empty coal train awaits their meet with a westbound Q train just outside of the small town of Hudson, CO just after sunrise on BNSF's Brush Subdivision.

A KCS MAC in Southern Belle paint, an extremely rare leader on the Colorado Joint Line, leads northbound empty coal buckets into Castle Rock, Colorado.

A southbound coal load has a northern visitor far from home rails, but not so far from home weather, as they crest the Palmer Divide during a snow squall in aptly named Palmer Lake, Colorado. It w... (more)

A pair of empty coal sets, led by SD70ACes, rest at the Englewood station awaiting new crews to head back towards the Power River Basin for more loads of black diamonds.

A lone whiteface SD40-2 of BN lineage disturbs the peace of a local cemetery, as it heads back to the job's and subdivision's namesake town after switching the industries that support the Coors br... (more)

A whiteface SD40-2 of BN lineage switches the industries that support the Coors brewery along BNSF's Golden Sub.

A former Burlington Northern SD70MAC pauses to let the Conductor and Brakeman off before continuing their switching duties at the Coors Brewery, and ultimately the 31st Street Yard in Denver.

A rare leader on the Colorado Joint Line has the UP 1989 leading the Denver North Yard to Pueblo manifest south out of Castle Rock, CO. This was the second UP Heritage Unit to lead this train in a... (more)

A former Burlington Northern SD40-2 rests in the BNSF 31st Street Yard Roundhouse awaiting minor repair between switching duties.