The roar of struggling locomotives in notch 8 pierce the mid-morning silence as southbound loaded coal drag UP CATJO9 23 muscles up the 1.1% grade known as Logan Hill north Bill, Wyoming. Topped o... (more)

Climbing Logan Hill at the same time are two southbound Union Pacific coal trains on June 13, 2014. The coal train with UP No. 5725 as DPU has already surmounted the grade and is picking up the pa... (more)

Climbing Logan Hill simultaneously past milepost 69 on the Orin Line are two southbound Union Pacific coal trains headed for Bill, Wyoming, on June 13, 2014.

Two Union Pacific coal trains climb Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 13, 2014. The four track main line here lifts trains past milepost 69 on the Orin Subdivision.

Under stormy skies in Powder River Basin, a northbound Union Pacific coal train is about to crest Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 13, 2014.

Even after the sun goes down, loaded coal trains continue to march over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 18, 2015.

Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin can be a busy place with four main tracks and coal trains pounding over the grade. In this view on June 18, 2015, a BNSF coal empty head north, meeting... (more)

A mine-bound Union Pacific coal empty meets a BNSF load on top of Logan Hill, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 18, 2015. In the distance, two southbound UP coal loads are also visible heading tow... (more)

As dusk settles in over Powder River Basin at 8:49 p.m. on June 18, 2015, a BNSF coal load dims its lights for a northbound empty as it chases the DPU of another southbound BNSF load on top of Log... (more)

A Chicago and North Western coal train crests the top of Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on July 7, 1994. Two new C44-9Ws lead an older C40-8 as power, all in nice, clean yellow and green…

CNW 8522,8530,UP6197 roll empties back to the mines down a then single track coal line.

An eastbound (geographical south) unit coal train was grinding up Logan Hill at Logan, WY on Sept. 21, 1995 with an assortment of motive power. A third track had been laid, but not yet ballasted.... (more)

Near the end of a long spring day CNW 8514, UP 9152, 6168 head an empty train back to the mines near Logan. This area is either triple or four tracks wide now and catching a standard cab unit on a... (more)

BN 5531, ATSF 8118, BN 5572,5109,7822 drop down Logan Hill with empties.