After two days of snow, fog and single digit temps Palmer Lake is covered in a layer of "Hoar Frost" as a northbound BNSF empty coal train passes

Northbound UP coal empty Palmer Lake

Northbound BNSF mainifest approaching Palmer Lake

A loaded southbound coal train pauses at Palmer Lake while the helpers are cut off.

southbound BNSF coal train Palmer Lake

just another southbound BNSF coal load passing through the "sag" a couple miles north of Palmer Lake

BNSF coal loads, head south on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF coal loads, head south on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF coal loads, head south on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

The Pikes Peak Local heads back north on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF coal loads, head south on the Joint Line. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF coal loads, head south on the Joint Line, as mty hoppers head north. (Thank you to Joe B. for acting as tour guide this day.)

BNSF's southbound Pikes Peak Local was climbing into Palmer Lake

BNSF's twice weekly Pikes Peak Local to near Drennen has finished the long climb from Denver to the top of the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake with a short train and will descend the next thiry miles... (more)