The second, final, coal train for the day to the Leland Olds Power Plant near Stanton is empty and heading through Beulah on its way west back to the mine.
Like a 10 mph snake, a train full of lignite coal from the Antelope Valley mine about 35 miles down the line rounds the curve south of Stanton and approaches its destination of the Leland Olds Pow... (more)
EMD SD70 is working a Westbound coal train thru Floriston two years before hordes of yellow SD70's would populate Donner Pass. #7001 is lashed up with three of SP's tunnel motors
Taken from the busy US HWY 2 overpass, two blue geeps take today's Cass Lake Local to the west. This train is leaving Bemidji behind and approaching Wilton within a couple of miles.
EMDX 9008 leads Ardoch coal empties south on the Hillsboro Sub. The Merrifield station sign serves as a tangible warning about the hazards of being too close to the tracks...it was recently clobb... (more)