Another GE leading a coal train, but it looks good in front of the bluffs along the Mississippi River.
southbound coal load starting downgrade out of Palmer Lake, CO
Northbound empty heads downhill to Denver while a rare autorack train on the Front Range crests the grade in Palmer Lake.
Usually the empty N859 runs as the E940, but today keeps the original loaded symbol as it accelerates from a stop at West Road.
After kicking out several BO cars this empty coal train finally gets underway as it swings off of the Coal Runner and onto the eastbound main.
Coal and merchandise lined up for crews.
DPU BNSF 6160 pushes on a coal train, the head end is already in Arkansas across the Mississippi River
Northbound BNSF 6160 sits on the main with a full load of coal cars as southbound BNSF 9685 leads an empty coal train into the siding. The engineer in parked 6160 prepares to hand off a box to th... (more)