An eastbound empty grain train crawls around the curve and up the hill toward Fryburg with a single C4 shoving on the rear.

A pair of GEVOs brings up the rear of a loaded coal train as it grinds eastward up the hill near Sully Springs.

BNSF 9356, an SD70ACe and a Citirail GE serve as DPUs on an eastbound coal train that is headed through Sully Springs, ND. The train had stopped short of the signal awaiting a westbound coal train... (more)

As the daylight breaks over the Badlands, an empty coal drag heads west to the PRB with some first generation AC power in service as a DPU.

BNSF 8572 serves as a DPU on a westbound coal train just west of Sully Springs, ND siding where it met an eastbound minutes earlier. Next stop is Glendive, MT for a crew change.

BNSF 9147 and 9087 start up an eastbound coal train at the west end of Sully Springs siding near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. The train had stopped short of the siding... (more)

Empty coal cars head back to the Powder River Basin. A clean set of ACe's leads the way across the badlands near Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park.

The DPU's of an empty coal train head back to the Powder River Basin. Here they are passing through the badlands near Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park.

A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty snakes through the Badlands past milepost 143 just west of Sully Springs, North Dakota, on June 29, 1994. EMD SD40-2 No. 7855 leads a pair of GE C30-7s a... (more)

Snaking through green grass blanketing parts of the badlands during a late springtime morning in North Dakota is an eastbound BNSF coal train at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

A westbound BNSF coal train slithers through the rugged Badlands at Sully Springs, North Dakota, on the afternoon of June 19, 2015.

After the passing of a wicked line of thunderstorms in the Badlands of North Dakota, a westbound BNSF coal train rolls over the west siding switch of Sully Springs in the very last sunlight of Jun... (more)

Skirting a quick-moving morning rainstorm, an eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the late spring green-covered Badlands of North Dakota at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty snakes through the Badlands past milepost 143 just west of Sully Springs, North Dakota, on a beautiful early summer day in 1994.

It was a nice treat to see the perfectly uniform bottom dump coal hoppers on this eastbound snaking through Sully Springs.