Another train struggles out of the Powder River basin back to Union Pacific tracks south of here.

BNSF 6422 snakes loaded hoppers out of the Powder River Basin just south of Donkey Creek Jct. during a light snow fall.

A UP load from Black Thunder enter the BNSF Orin Subdivision at Reno Junction.

Just at dusk CNW 8512,UP 9152 and GECX 3001 come pounding up Walker Hill with another load of Powder River Basin coal headed east. The lack of trees or anything else for that matter in Eastern Wyo... (more)

One of the reason for the 1995 trip to the Powder River Basin was to try to get CNW power before it was patched or repainted. Thankfully, to a large degree, it worked. Most trains had CNW leader... (more)

Being from "back east," it took me a while to learn the extremes of western weather. One such lesson was learned in mid-September of 1995 on a trip to the Powder River Basin. I really hadn't pla... (more)

Montana may be Big Sky country but I think Wyoming would be a close second, especially around the Powder River basin. BN MAC's 9494,9823,9425 head coal east around a long sweeping curve near Coal ... (more)

A pair of eastbound BNSF coal loads waits for crews at East Rozet as another approaches on the main.

UP 5955 leads coal loads south from Reno Junction.

A 7-way meet...only in the Powder River Basin at Converse Jct. 3 BNSF empties sit on the leads to the Antelope Mine while 4 UP (3 loads and 1 empty) trains occupy the mains (1 on each main).

UP 5947 races another set of coal loads out of the Powder River Basin as seen at Nacco Jct. where the lead to the North Antelope mine diverges from the Orin Sub.

UP 6792 leads a set of coal loads EB (geographic SB) out of the Powder River Basin as seen through a set of s-curves just north of Nacco Jct.

As afternoon thunder storms pop up, this eastbound BNSF coal train with an DPU on the rear snakes its way through an s-curve en route to Donkey Creek Junction.

75. Such impressive grades on the Powder River Basin. The 400mm is fun to use out here.

UP 6221 and 6406 bring the rear of empty coal up to North Antelope mine at Nacco Jct.