Eastbound coal loads head up the grade running wrong main out of coal country.
Threatning skies soon open up as Westbound BNSF 9643 comes around the bend for an Eastbound meet.
Skirting between the hills in the middle of nowhere is this set of tracks and the dirt road I am on. This is one of the last places you would want to get stuck.
The clouds have been trying to lift up into the sky all day while the sun at the same time tries to peek through.
Some fine horsepower pictured here as a BNSF locomotive passes by as I sit on my Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic. I got caught by the train while riding through Newcastle and this shot came to mind ... (more)
A quick coal train catch in Newcastle before I move my motorcycle trip on to Cody, Wyoming.
A mix of EMD and GE power takes another coal train through the S curves at Newcastle.
BNSF's first AC4400CW leads an identical twin and a coal train through the S curves.
Two of BNSF's finest take another coal train through Newcastle, swinging through the S curves.
It's just after sunrise when the first coal train of the morning greets me with a pair of BNSF and CITX GEs winding through this S curve at Newcastle.
Another in the daily parade of Coal Trains from the Powder River Basin heading towards distant power plants.
A pair of relics sit idle at the depot in New Castle. It appears to be a side dump car that is sittting behind the SD40-2.