BNSF 9479 from the MACe program brings up the rear of a southbound load at Larkspur on the Joint Line.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A unit tank train grinds its way over the Joint Line at the ned of a hot September afternoon.

An NS SD60 variant smokes it as the third unit as a southbound manifest heads out of Larkspur.

A loaded sand train heads over the Santa Fe trestle and through the forests at Larkspur.

Two Union Pacific SD40-2’s, one a “snoot”, the other conventional, roll an eastbound Rio Grande bare table train across the oft-photographed Santa Fe trestle at Larkspur, Colorado. Framing t... (more)

BNSF's twice a week northbound Pikes Peak Local was descending into Larkspur.

UP 844 leads the UP Southern Pacific special on the joint line through Castle Rock.

UP 844 teams up with the UP Southern Pacific special and heads south through Colorado on its way to New Mexico

UP 844 runs through the Black Forest on the Joint Line near Larkspur, on its way to New Mexico.

Five Burlington Northern six-axle units bring coal across the often-photographed Santa Fe bridge at Larkspur, Colorado. The Joint Line dates to World War I USRA control, when the parallel Pueblo-D... (more)

A Northbound train of Windmill Towers rolls underneath a huge Thunderhead.

Amtrak special taking MARC cars to CDOT test track east of Pueblo for testing.*corrected*

A nice pair of foreign line engines lead this BNSF Northbound empty coal train that had been stored at Springfield, CO

A northbound BNSF coal empty was descending out of Larkspur on normal southbound only main track one.