Running on compressed air, this locomotive was built in 1931 by the H.K. Porter Company on an 18" gauge for the Homestake Mining Company in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The loaded coal CATJO9 28 rolls by the signals on Converse County Road 43.

The loaded coal train 2CNAWB9 28 come around the curve as it approaches Converse County Road 48.

The Union Pacific CNANK9 28 loaded coal train passes BNSF's C-SBMPHH0-62A loaded coal along the coal train superhighway in eastern Wyoming.

BNSF 7005 leads the Laurel, MT to Kansas City freight through Douglas, Wyoming on the Casper Sub as it passes MP 149.

In late 1890 the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley first reached Deadwood, SD. The Chicago and North Western Railway acquired control of the FE&MV in the late 1800s. In 1903, the FE&MV was formal... (more)

This caboose is actually leading the Casper local out of the yard as it crosses over Interstate 25 enroute to the Sinclair Oil Facility in Evansville.

Breaking away from the Bike Rally in Sturgis, I came across this southbound ICE locomotive leading a freight down Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern track.

BNSF's H-LINLAU1-03A train crosses under Interstate 25 in Orin, Wyoming on its way to Laurel, Montana, via Casper.

The Denver-Laurel train comes off the BNSF Casper Sub onto the 1st Division Sub of the Montana Rail Link.

A BNSF train has come off BN's Casper Sub and is now parked in Montana Rail Link's Laurel Yard.

A loaded coal train rolls through Sheridan, Wyoming on the Big Horn Subdivision.

Another coal train, (Imagine that!) this time empty (CMRSB9 17), heads north into the Powder River Basin for more coal.

Coal trains coming and going here in Wyoming. UP engine 6651 brings the empty coal train CWSAT 16 back into the PRB for a coal refill at the Antelope Mine.

BNSF 5812 does its part as the DPU on the C-ATMMHS1-31A loaded coal train bound for Georgia. This train will exchange with the Norfolk Southern in Memphis to continue its journey through the South... (more)