A Grinstein SD70MAC belches smoke as a coal train gets moving again after waiting for a green signal at Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 5964 (ES44AC) waits for a green to leave Sterling, Colorado and will arrive in Denver two or three hours after rolling out of town.

BNSF 5964 (ES44AC) holds in Sterling, Colorado with a loaded coal train destined for Denver.

Roughly 100 years separate the manufacture date of these two engines. The saddle tank 'Dinky' worked the Great Western sugar beet factory and the BNSF ES44AC works hauling coal on the Brush Sub. ... (more)

An eastbound empty coal bucket traverses across the plains of eastern Colorado on a spring evening at Roggen, CO.

BNSF 5964 (ES44AC) runs through the S curve south of Sedalia, Colorado.

A Donnie, TX to Rawhide Mine, WY coal empty passes through Highland, CO the day after a major snow storm blanketed the area.

Traveling just over 100 miles, the North Antelope Mine to PacifiCorp Energy’s Dave Johnson Power Station at Clayton, Wyoming, has the shortest trip of the numerous coal trains loading in the Pow... (more)

With BNSF ES44AC 5964 and CEFX SD90MAC 133 on the point and BN SD70MAC 9633 working as the DPU, empty coal train E-CEBNAM2-02 rounds the curve toward the bridge over Elkhorn Creek

An eastbound coal load roars through Cameron as a powerful wind kicks up snow.

Imaging living here! Watch BNSF & UP freights on the Joint Line between Colorado Springs and Denver. Here BNSF 5964 heads a loaded coal train upgrade (South) to Palmer Lake.

Wood River coal empties southbound splitting Hartford, Illinois in half on the NS Alton district. With the UP Springfield sub just 2 blocks east, MPRPB waited until until this train cleared the c... (more)