BNSF 9909 leads a heavy coal load south at Larkspur. On this turbulent Saturday, the weather here would soon go from sunny to rain and thunder!
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Grinding along at 14 MPH, this southbound coal load is dragging up the hill in run eight.
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This southbound coal load, led by BNSF 9909, is about to pass underneath Titan Road, not too far south of Littleton on the Joint Line.
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Under partly cloudy skies, this BNSF manifest (using its trackage rights on the Moffat) is slowing down on the siding, where it will wait for an eastbound coal load.
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BNSF's westbound MDENSTO-16 is running through the many curves at Blue Mountain (at the base of Coal Creek Canyon) working on its ascent toward the Moffat Tunnel.
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On a beautiful Friday afternoon, a southbound BNSF manifest works its way past milepost 25 and the Valmont Power Plant in Boulder. The train is led by a Dash 9-44CW and a former Santa Fe SD45. The SD45 is now listed as NREX 6410, and has quite possibly been rebuilt to SD40-2 specifications.
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A unit covered hopper train sits on the siding at Leyden waiting for a relief crew to come take it the remaining 12 miles into town. The trains was probably 5,500 feet long and had DPU both at the mid-point and the end of the train.
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BNSF's Denver to Stockton Manifest waits in the siding at Rollins for an eastbound hi-railer!
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A warbonnet (BNSF 4703) leads a BNSF train over the Rio Grande at the west end of Leyden.
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The BNSF trains are a nice mix into the moffat traffic; here a clean warbonnet (BNSF 4703) leads an eastbound at Rocky.
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BNSF's Front Range Sub does not see a ton of through freights, but on this Saturday this westbound is approaching the siding of Boulder after just crossing 55th Avenue in Boulder.
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A lot of the bushes have lost their leaves at this point as a unit tank train moves south along Palmer Lake. The train is powered by three C44-9CWs in Heritage-II paint, and a single Oakway SD60.
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A rare GP40X (and the first one I have ever seen) was the fourth unit on a northbound manifest.
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A northbound coal empty is approaching Palmer Lake and will soon diverge from the single track main to main two for the trip to Denver.
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A southbound coal train is passing through Castle Rock on the northbound main (main two).
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