Looks like it was a snowy trip across the Dakota's and Minnesota for this train, back in 1996 you could still drive into facilities like Midwest Energy in Superior and and take pictures of trains ... (more)
On May 23, 1997, at the east end of Alliance Yard, a coal load departs eastbound for the Sand Hills Subdivision while three others wait their turn. Coal trains in this era are the domain of EMD’... (more)
Even though the date says it’s BNSF, its still is a Burlington Northern show on Crawford Hill on April 11, 1998. Five green GE and EMD products led by C30-7 No. 5535 are on the point of an eastb... (more)
This remote CB&Q facility was rebuilt to help handle the coal traffic out of the PRB. Here standard coal power for the time is serviced prior to their next assignments.
Grinsteins and grazers A Burlington Northern coal train heads south near Bill, Wyoming, on May 12, 1995. With twelve-thousand horsepower of EMD SD70MACs screaming above, surprisingly th... (more)
We were at Haire, WY on the morning of Sept. 21, 1995. I guess is is best to go from left to right. A westbound (geographic north) BN empty coal train was waiting for traffic to clear before lea... (more)
A loaded coal train climbs the west slop of Crawford Hill
BN's bicentennial unit 1776 still looks good as it awaits departure in Missoula, Montana.
IEI coal power picking up empty cars off CN/IC center siding then back to IEI for rest of train
Southbound on the "Joint Line", three new BN MAC's wind through the s-curves with a loaded coal train at Palmer Lake Colorado.
Four Brand New BN MAC's, (BN 9490, 9487, 9486, 9491), are Westbound leading a GTW manifest train to BN's Clyde Yard in Cicero Illinois.
