The crew of this northbound manifest was running low on hours and with no dogcatcher crew available, the race was on to get to Denver. Here they are powering a visiting Catfish down the grade lea... (more)
Probably the most popular railfan spot along the entire Joint Line is located just above the cab of BNSF 9276. That little earthen hump allows shots of northbounds climbing up the Palmer Divide a... (more)
A southbound manifest starts down the Palmer Divide and leaves Palmer Lake behind. I don't know what's worse, the fact that Dash 9s are up front or that the paint on these 10-plus year old units ... (more)
The hostler just needed to add an H1 GE locomotive to this consist to have the complete BNSF widecab GE set. Maybe next time. A northbound manifest starts downhill leaving Palmer Lake.
AC SD70-led coal empties split the serene setting at the north end of the Greenland Open Space as they start their journey downhill toward Denver.
Two elephant-style MACs start down the northside of the Palmer Divide as they accelerate out of Palmer Lake, CO on a beautiful spring morning.
Northbound coal empties start to pick up speed as they descend down the backside of the Palmer Divide and into the Greenland Open Space.
An autorack train on the Joint Line?!? Well, not quite. We're just seeing the first part of a monster Amarillo, TX - Denver, CO priority mainfest. This train clocked in with 111 cars trailing o... (more)
After traveling all the way from Larkspur, through the Greenland Open Space and past The Sag under a blanket of cloud cover, BNSF 9322 crests the Palmer Divide in Palmer Lake and pops into a fortu... (more)
A pretty long freight is pulled up the Joint Line by SF GP39-2 3667, SF U23C 7516 and BN's SD45 6410
After stopping briefly in "the sag" to cool its traction motors, this Texas-bound coal load is pulling again as it approach the top of the Palmer Divide in Palmer Lake.
BN U33C 5760 leads a short freight up the Joint Line near Palmer Lake
BN U30C and companions pull hard up the Joint Line near Palmer Lake in the light of an upcoming storm
Coal empties run north on Main 2 just outside of Palmer Lake on their way back to the mines.
