Southbound coal train spraying fresh snow off the rails as the first rays of morning sunlight pierce the sky.
Southbound coal train passing through Orsa, Colorado with the Rocky Mountains looming overhead in the background.
Southbound coal train peeking through through the first rays of morning light after a fresh snow.
Southbound coal train with the last rays of sunlight.
120 cars of Wyoming's Powder River coal are on the final leg of their journey to the Comanche Power Plant in Pueblo, CO as they battle the 1.5% grade of Orsa on Colorado's BNSF/UP Joint Line.
Looking more like the transcon than the unit coal train ridden Pikes Peak Sub. A 4-pack of GE’s stretch out between Sedalia and Castle Rock. The train had a large group of mostly Fed Ex Trailers... (more)
A pair of Rio Grande SD45's along with a pair of Burlington Northern SD40-2's head South with a loaded coal train destined for the power plant at Coletto Creek, TX
They used to be called sun kinks, and now known as a "thermal misalignment." This had occurred in the siding at Orsa, Colo. as an AT&SF passed on the Joint Line southbound main, Sept. 9, 1988.
Photo by Timothy Tonge from my collection.
Southbound coal load on Joint Line at Orsa
