The Nebraska panhandle area reveived a heavy amount of springtime rains. By mid July, the countryside near Belmont was still very green. The hillsides were also covered with millions of tiny yello... (more)

BNSF 6134 pulls hard for the summit of Crawford Hill at Belmont. Site of the old tunnel can be seen at the right.

This thirteen minute and twelve second exposure sees an entire loaded coal train go past the 417.6 automatic signal near the base of Crawford Hill.

The BN coal biz was still burgeoning at this time, with the CNW/UP's entrance still in the future. But even then, the coal traffic was constant. Here an empty heads for Marsland and the east sid... (more)

One of the few general freights that traverse a line dominated by coal trains. These trains are the one that seem to get different BNSF power. (Not the AC units that dominate on the coal trains)

With visible evidence of the strain rising into the air, a pair of MAC's and a pair of GEVO's fight the curvature and gravity rounding Breezy Point. Very unusually all the power is on the front en... (more)

The rear DPU's trail coal empties rounding the aptly named Breezy Point descending the escarpment from Belmont.

Rush hour on Crawford Hill! A rolling meet on the lower horseshoe sees ES44AC 6210 lead a coal loads uphill as the daily manifest heads downhill. The latter is about the only variety from the proc... (more)

With a pair of GEVO's up front and another pair on the rear for a combined 17,600hp, a pair of SD75M's and a single SD60M add an additional 11,600hp to assist these coal loads up the Crawford Hill... (more)

A chance rolling meet on Crawford Hill as 9810 east slogging up the hill to Belmont, with its train wrapped around the aptly named Breezy Point, faces empties heading for another fill-up in the Po... (more)

Three for the price of one! To the left, E MHDNAM creeps around Breezy Point on a Restricting signal, while in the upper right, loaded C JRMSLP passes the DPU on empty E PCBBTM. In 11 hours on C... (more)

One of the helper sets were added to the point of this train to speed it's trip over the hill.

BN 7232, with 3 other helpers and a fuel tender, are added onto the head end of an ailing coal train with EMD 9019 leading. The KCS unit had blown it's turbo during the climb up Crawford Hill and ... (more)

A trio of MAC's lead an empty coal train back to the Powder River Basin, as a helper set to the right waits to cross over and head back down the hill to Crawford for another shove.