A BNSF coal train crosses Logan Hill on the Orin Line in Powder River Basin north of Bill, Wyoming, on the morning of July 5, 2019.

The sun has set on the longest day of the year, June 21, 2020, as a southbound BNSF coal train surmounts Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming. Over on Track 1, a southbound Union Pacific coal load ch... (more)

It’s almost 8:00 p.m. on the longest day of the year as a BNSF coal load meets a Union Pacific empty on top of Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. The Orin Line isn’t as busy as i... (more)

A BNSF coal load passes a Union Pacific empty on top of Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, at 8:00 p.m. on June 21, 2020. The Orin Line isn’t as busy as it used to be, and at the time of this phot... (more)

It’s 8:47 p.m. as the sun sets in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 21, 2020. A southbound Union Pacific coal train grinds to the crest of Logan Hill on Track 1, while a BNSF coal load picks up... (more)

Toward the end of the day on July 3, 2020, a northbound BNSF coal empty marches up Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on the Orin Line on Powder River Basin.

After some late day storms, the weather settles down a bit as the sun sets. while a northbound Union Pacific coal empty passes a BNSF coal train on Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 21, 2... (more)

Three Union Pacific coal trains cross the top of Logan Hill on Wyoming’s Powder River Basin Orin Line north of Bill during the morning hours of June 23, 2018.

Repainted Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 7267 leads a southbound coal train over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 22, 2018.

Torrential rain and thunderstorms have just pounded Wyoming’s Logan Hill, and as the storms head east, a southbound Union Pacific coal train climbs the hill at Logan at sunset on July 4, 2019.

Storms are moving away, as is a southbound Union Pacific coal train that has just crested Logan Hill with GE ET44AC shoving as rear DPU, late in the day of July 4, 2019. Logan Hill is north of Bil... (more)

On a rainy and stormy May 3, 2007, the fourth main track was still being built over Logan Hill between Bill and Converse Junction, Wyoming, as two Union Pacific coal trains roll past construction ... (more)

Late in the afternoon of July 4, 2019, Mother Nature decided to provide some of her own fireworks over Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Torrential rain, lots of lightning and some wind sent us into t... (more)

Three coal trains top Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on October 18, 2018. A BNSF empty on Track 2 passes a BNSF load on Track 3, while a Union Pacific load heads southbound on Track 1 behind t... (more)

A stout, wooden tie that once supported heavy trains rolling over steel rails is now holding up just a few barbed wires and fencing—and planted into the soil vertically like the tree it once was—s... (more)