Living on borrowed time, the morning mine run from outside Page (near Lake Powell) down to the mine (on Black Mesa) begins its trek through the Colorado Plateau.
After interchanging cars with the Norfolk Southern, the Flats Industrial Railroad heads back to deliver cars to Cereal Processors, shoving here over their Cuyahoga River draw.
An EMD export GA8 waits inside the port area between assignments. It had pulled a string of cathode cards to the port about an hour earlier and would take back some empty flats about an hour later... (more)