A Gateway, IA, empty bound back to Black Thunder Mine, WY, rolls west on the Ottumwa Sub in southern Iowa. The train passes thru Lockridge and pass the local cemetery. Fall has been pretty late th... (more)
BNSF 6191 leads CP train 828 up the 1.7% Rutledge Hill in Ottumwa, IA. I would later become the student conductor on this train.
Westbound empties.
BNSF 6191 is the dpu on an eastbound coal train.