A UP unit train heads to the Black Thunder loadout at Nacco Junction while a BNSF helper set idles away. Another helper set is just to the right, out of the frame on the busy PRB. The Jacobs Ranch... (more)
BNSF slowly proceeds into the Dry Fork Mine just outside of Gillette,WY at 716 PM
The silloutte of Cordero's coal loading towers stand against a textured cloud filled sky as the sun sets on Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
UP6539 and BNSF9706 await for heading east at East Donkey Creek. The hoppers make nice vertical snake. Behind lower left is FURX 8123 (SD40-2).
With SD60M 9269 on the point, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train rolls into Gillette, Wyoming, and prepares for a crew change on July 10, 1995.
The new Black Thunder West coal loadout facility is now operational. The coal runs from the Black Thunder mine along the tracks and then up and over the mainline just North of Reno Jct. You can se... (more)
Trains line up for the two mines this section of track serves. The train on the left is coming out from the Black Thunder Mine as the train on the right is heading towards Jacobs Ranch Mine.
The crews are working in the background to get the Union Pacific coal train out on the mainline after just being loaded with some fresh PRB coal as a BNSF empty waits for it's turn. A great Wyomin... (more)
Dust can be seen flying around what I think is Coal Creek Mine.
A loaded Eastbound kicks up dust at it charges into the early morning sun.
Just another downpour on my day at the PRB.
The construction continues on the Black Thunder West loadout facility as a train waits off in the distance and BNSF DPUs push East off the main at Reno Jct. The new Black Thunder West load out sil... (more)
Even though it is raining, it has no factor on the endless string of trains in the PRB.
BNSF 9161 + 9466 skirt the Powder River on the approach to Arvada WY with coal empties. The goat did get out of the way at the very last minute !!
A BNSF coal train heads east for Crawford Hill, Alliance, and points east at MP 581, east of Donkey Creek, Wyoming in brilliant storm light.