It's time to play Orin Sub Alphabet Soup! Seven trains are visible in this scene captured at Reno Junction on a beautiful summer morning marred by a cloud of dust drifting west from Black Thunder Mine. In the foreground, BNSF C-CDMMOL0-35A enters Reno Siding at MP 39.9 while UP C-WTWL91-06 is strung out through Thunder Junction West waiting for the BNSF load to clear. Beyond the SR 450 overpass, UP C-CANC91-06 climbs over the hogback on Main 1 at Crossover 43.5, while some eleven miles distant from my tripod UP C-BMWX1-06 slides below the Edwards Road overpass on Main 3 at Crossover 49.2. Over at the West Thunder Mine loadout, BNSF C-WTMCXC0-38A (the same train which had been loading before the previous day's storm) sits alongside the departing UP load while two empty trains, which would eventually become UP C-WTND91-06 and BNSF C-WTMPAM0-16A, await their turns to pass through the silo. Sights such as this are actually quite common in the Powder River Basin.
