Coal empties leave the yard bound for the Powder River Basin. Trailing units are SD40-2 7268, SF30C 9546, C30-7 5068 and SD402P KCS 616.
A set of power heads down to the south yard to collect coal empties.
A pair of SD60Ms lead coal empties along the Sandhills Sub east of Alliance, NE on a bleak winter day. BN 1991, second out, has the "Support Our Troops" scheme.
Three DC motors haul an eastbound coal train beginning its trip along the Sandhills Sub several miles east of Alliance. Fuji Astia.
The heart of coal country is Alliance Yard in northwestern Nebraska. This is where coal trains can head east towards Lincoln, NE, and points east, or south towards Denver and points south. Empty t... (more)
Most trains traveling east out of Alliance, NE are loaded with Powder River coal, but in the Nebraska sand hills along Nebraska Route 2, we traveled in our Chevrolet Impala station wagon alongsid... (more)
Locomotives idle around the Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s locomotive facility at Alliance, Nebraska, near sunset on July 21, 2003.
Three Burlington Northern SD70MACs line up on the west side of the Alliance Diesel Shop waiting to be moved inside for maintenance work on June 13, 1998.
BN 5598 is eastbound with a loaded coal train along Hwy 2 near Alliance, NE on a foggy morning in May of 1991.
Heritage II-painted ES44DC no. 7654 has three Boeing 737 fuselages waiting to go north at Alliance, Nebraska.
A load waits to get into Alliance, as it waits a spot north of town.
BNSF 8553 holds just south of Alliance on the Angora Sub.
BNSF SD70MAC units 9465. 9513 and 9600 have uncoupled from an eastbound coal train for servicing at Alliance.
Two BNSF coal trains from The Powder River Basin have pulled into Alliance, Nebraska.
