Stormy Weather Super Cells spin south of the Palmer Divide.

A pair of EMD SD70ACe pump out heavy smoke as they get their 17,500 ton coal train moving on a 1.4% grade of Spruce as the DP motors of an empty coal train head north on main track 2.

One of the Joint Lines 'rescue motors", BNSF 9026, sits idle in the spur track of Spruce with a pair of bad order coal cars coupled behind it. Normally, a lone BNSF locomotive waits in the sp... (more)

BNSF 6829 (ES44C4) snakes through the S curves with a string of gondola cars as it runs south on the Joint Line through Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 8165 (ES44C4) leads an officer's special southbound on the Joint Line at Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 6829 (ES44C4) winds through the S-curves at Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 8165 (ES44C4) leads an Officer's Special into a patch of sunlight as it runs through Spruce, Colorado on the Joint Line.

The BNSF officer special runs through the shadows as it heads south on the Joint Line through Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 6357 (ES44AC) pulls a coal train south on the Joint Line towards Palmer Lake, Colorado.

BNSF 5898 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train over an elevate curve as it approaches Spruce, Colorado on the Joint Line.

BNSF 6357 (ES44AC) leads a freight through Spruce, Colorado as it gets closer to Palmer Lake.

BNSF 6829 (ES44AC) leads a freight through the winding turns between Spruce, Colorado and Palmer Lake.

BNSF 7709 (ES44DC) leads a northbound freight on the Joint Line, passing a waiting southbound coal train at Spruce, Colorado that will release once the freight is completely through Palmer Lake. ... (more)

An entire BNSF coal train can be seen running up the valley between Greenland and Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 4705 holds at "The Sag" for a fleet of northbound traffic as they clear the single track section of the Pikes Peak Sub. In the background, the second of three northbound manifest pa... (more)