BNSF 9002 pulls 124 car Rawhide Mine, WY to Donnie (Headwaters Power Plant), TX coal train over the 7200' high Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO during a late October snow storm.
BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train around Palmer Lake as it runs south on the Joint Line.
BNSF SD70MAC No. 9935 is a DPU on a SB loaded coal train as it heads down the S curve at Palmer Lake
BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) snakes through the S turns leading to Palmer Lake as it runs a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line.
BNSF 6220 slowly crest the summit of Palmer Lake, 7,200' above sea level, as it hauls 120 loaded coal cars to the Comanche Power Plant near Pueblo, CO.
A pair of DP motors help hold back a 17,000 ton coal train as it descends down the over 1% grade of the Palmer Divide between Palmer Lake and Monument.
The once daily Clovis, NM to Denver, CO manifest train crest over the top of the Palmer Divide as the fading sun dips behind the hills of the surrounding mountain town of Palmer Lake, CO.
An empty coal train from Springerville, AZ heads back to the Antelope Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin as the train approaches the top of Palmer Lake.
BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train through the 180-degree curve at Palmer Lake, Colorado.
BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train past the rock formations at Palmer Lake, Colorado.
An empty coal train charges hard up the southern slope of the Palmer Divide as it approaches the 7,225' summit of Palmer Lake.
BNSF ACe 8435 rounds the corner leading to Palmer Lake as it runs south on the Joint Line along the Colorado Front Range.
On the first day of my vacation to Colorado we see southbound manifest (yes there was mixed cars on the back) throttling up as they got held up for the previous southbound at the signal. They are ... (more)
BNSF 6137 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal through the S turns leading to Palmer Lake, Colorado.
A Donnie, TX coal load crest the 7,200' summit of the Palmer Lake as it passes Palmer Lake on a warm summer afternoon.
