The Fast and the Slow On the left, UP 6866 and another UP unit are the DPUs of an empty coal train, bound for Black Thunder Mines, flies down Logan Hill at track Speed. On the right, a loaded coal train crawls at about 15 MPH up the hill. This is just your typical action on the Powder River Basin as the railroad moves this black gold across out country.
During the summer of 2011, my dad and I drove across eight states chasing trains. We went up through the Central Valley of California. Then over Donner Pass and the Northern Nevada Desert to Salt Lake City, UT. After that, we headed to Laramie, WY and the
