The symmetry of a Unit Grain train is one of the things that makes it a lot of fun to shoot! With the sun finally coming out from behind the clouds, this grain empty passes south past milepost 35.40 on Main 1.
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A southbound "Earthworm" is heading south along I-25 just south of Castle Rock. I caught two trains on the Joint Line on this day and, to my amazement, neither was a coal train! Crazy how much Castle Rock has grown in the past decade.
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Two SD70MACs server as the tail-end DPU on this southbound BNSF coal load. Perhaps the most famous of Colorado's numerous 14,000-foot mountain peaks, Pikes Peak stands in the distance. The highway to the left is I-25.
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A bit of an artsy shot looking north up the west rail of Main One at a southbound coal load. The train was still over a mile away when I snapped this shot! The beauty of telephoto.
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Most shots along the Joint Line south of Castle Rock are on Main 1 on the west side of I-25...for good reason! The lighting is great there almost any time of day. So, I decided to try out a shot of a northbound on Main 2 on the east side of I-25. The lighting isn't nearly as good, but you get a nice view of Pikes Peak!
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For this shot, I slowed down the shutter a bit to capture the streaking snow (rather than freeze the individual flakes). BNSF 5614 is actually a manned helper based at Big Lift. The unit tied on to the train there and will remain on for the trip to Palmer Lake.
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