With a paint scheme just about as fresh as they come, BNSF ES44DC #7688 leads the MLAUDEN train south along highway 119 between Longmont and Boulder.
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A beautiful March day in Colorado with temperatures in the upper 50's found the BNSF MLAUDEN-03 coming south on the Front Range Sub. The train was being led by BRAND new "GEVO" ES44DC BNSF 7688. A second "Evolution Series" GE units was DPU'd on the back of the train.
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This southbound BNSF coal load has some very interesting (and colorful) DPU power on this day. A "green and cream" BNSF SD70MAC and "Flagged" UP AC4400CW-CTE bring up the rear in run eight just north of Sedalia.
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A beautiful snow-capped Longs Peak rises high above in the background as this southbound coal load is about to split the signals at Kalamath Street. The train will crossover at South Denver from Main Two to Main One and continue south toward the Joint Line.
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Just a few minutes before sunset, this westbound MDENPRO highballs Leyden with the Denver skyline visible in the distance. The four units on the train each wore a different paint scheme: Heritage 2, Warbonnet, Heritage 1, and Blue Bonnet. The fourth ("Blue Bonnet") unit is a GP60, BNSF 8716.
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A rerouted Barstow, CA to Pasco, WA (MBARPAS) has units representing BNSF's immediate heritage as it runs down the middle of Mason Street in Fort Collins.
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An MRL SD40 is squished between two BNSF C44-9W's as this MDENLAU (with several COFC's up front) follows the Diagonal Highway (which runs between Boulder and Longmont).
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A southbound BNSF manifest passes MP 32 as it approaches the Foothills Parkway underpass. The train will slow to 20 MPH while it passes through Boulder.
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A re-routed BNSF V-PTLDEN sits on the mainline just north of 63rd Avenue along the Diagonal near Boulder, CO. The train has a track warrant to MP 32, but is waiting near MP 33.5 due to a train working in Boulder.
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Union Pacific supplies coal to the Valmont power plant in Boulder. Two UP units remain on the coal train for power, and a BNSF unit (typically an SD70MAC) is added to the point for the trip from Denver to Boulder.
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BNSF's trio of elephant style, Heritage 2 Dash 9's lead an eastbound manifest out of the first tunnel on the east side of the divide, Tunnel 1.
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A BNSF warbonnet and Dash 9 sit in the whole at Leyden, patiently waiting for a clear signal to continue the last 12 miles to Denver.
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Early on a cold Colorado morning, the daily MDENLAU is approaching the station sign Boulder. The train has some colorful power today, with a warbonnet (BNSF 718), a Heritage-II, an Oakway SD60, and a green BN SD40-2.
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The only two regular freights on BNSF's Front Range Sub in the MDENLAU and MLAUDEN. On the first Monday of 2005, however, there was a VPTLDEN that was running south on the Front Range Sub. It was led by BNSF 4999. Here, the train is passed under Foothills Pkwy at MP 32.
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On the extreme east end of the DRGW, the Belt Main track passes under the former BN main north out of Denver. Today, a BNSF coal empty heads out of Denver over the Belt Main on the BNSF Brush Subdivision.
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