Southbound BNSF manifest Palmer Lake

A southbound BNSF coal load has reached the top of the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake and is about to begin the long descent to Pueblo

BNSF 8999 leads a string of coal down the grade out of Palmer Lake after a recent blast of fresh snow. A new ACe, fresh snow, blue skies, and mountains...does it get any better?!?

KCS 4161 heads South on the single track stretch of the Joint Line between Palmer Lake and Monument.

Ferromex led southbound empty BNSF grain train curving through Palmer Lake

Three BNSF GEs work up the towards the Palmer Divide on thi southbound manifest at Palmer Lake. Two manned helpers bring up the rear the train.

Sitting in your office chair on BNSF 9984 South at the beginning of Colorado’s Joint Line single track at Palmer Lake on May 2, 1999, the dispatcher advises you are waiting for UP 8080 North. ... (more)

What lake? After meeting a coal load at Monument, a relatively new SD70ACe leads this coal empty while passing the well... it was once a lake but looks like it may return in the future at P... (more)

Canadian Pacific "Dual-Flag" AC4400CW no. 9573 brings up the rear of this northbound empty coal train. The locomotives are passing over the switch going from single to double track at Pa... (more)

Extraordinary circumstances have brought Rock Island 131 to Palmer Lake on June 27, 1965. A massive series of storms two weeks before swept away almost every railroad line into Denver. UP’s trac... (more)

Northbound BNSF manifest passing CP Palmer Lake with a great mix of power

Northbound BNSF officer special climbing toward Palmer Lake in a snow storm

Southbound BNSF manifest rounding Palmer Lake

A southbound UP coal load was climbing toward the Palmer Divide a mile north of the top of the climb at Palmer Lake

BNSF's northbound Pikes Peak Local was climbing toward to top of the Palmer Divide with an exSOO CITX SD60 leading