The sun has just broken the horizon and BNSF 6426 (ES44AC) and a mate shove hard on a loaded coal climbing the Joint Line grade from Greenland to Palmer Lake, Colorado.
Union Pacific 7982 (C45ACCTE) races down the slot from Palmer Lake to Greenland, Colorado. Above the cab is Pike's Peak, one of Colorado's 54 14,000-foot-plus peaks.
With the morning sun rising over the eastern parries, a pair of BNSF GEs motors descend down the Palmer Divide on empty grain shuttle as they traverse the last 45 miles of the trip into Denver. In... (more)
On February 25, 1999, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train rumbles past a stately barn located at Greenland on a more rural portion of Colorado’s Joint Line. Because of its proxi... (more)