BNSF GE ES44AC No. 5904 leads a coal train climbing the grade of Nebraska’s Crawford Hill at Windy Point (a.k.a, Breezy Point) west of Belmont on the afternoon of July 11, 2008. Emerging from so... (more)

Coal trains pass on Crawford Hill below Belmont, Nebraska, on July 12, 2008. The loaded train climbing the hill is a XCLX (Xcel Energy) unit train of hoppers, while the downgrade empty is composed... (more)

Drifting down Track 2 west of Belmont, Nebraska, is a westbound helper set heading back to Crawford after pushing another coal train up Crawford Hill on July 12, 2008. The locomotives are heading ... (more)

A BNSF coal train climbs the grade of Nebraska’s Crawford Hill at Windy Point (a.k.a, Breezy Point) west of Belmont on the afternoon of July 11, 2008. The train is led by Union Pacific GE AC4400... (more)

A BNSF coal train rounds the curve at Windy Point (a.k.a, Breezy Point) west of Belmont on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on the afternoon of July 11, 2008. A helper set of three EMD SD75Ms shove on t... (more)

A BNSF coal train climbs through the big horseshoe curve below Belmont on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on May 21, 2006. Three former Santa Fe EMD SD75Ms push on the SD70MAC DPU of the train as an em... (more)

Old School, for sure! An Oakway Leasing SD-60 leads a trio of foreigners in the form of UP SD-40-2s on westbound empty hoppers at the summit of Crawford Hill.

An eastbound coal train climbs through the big horseshoe curve below Belmont on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on September 16, 2008. Two former BN EMD SD60Ms are mated with warbonnet GE Dash 9 No. 76... (more)

For a while, some of BNSF’s SD75M fleet was in helper service on Crawford Hill in Nebraska. Here, a set of three, each in a different scheme, shoves hard on the DPU of an eastbound coal load cli... (more)

A helper set assists an eastbound loaded coal train up Crawford Hill near Belmont.

Just another BN coal load was climbing Crawford hill rounding the middle of three horseshoe curves a couple miles below Belmont.

Two BNSF coal trains meet on upper part of the horseshoe curve below Belmont on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on the morning of May 21, 2006.

Two BNSF coal trains pass each other on the horseshoe curve below Belmont on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on May 19, 2006. Cars of the upgrade load can be seen on the other side of the curve below, ... (more)

Four Burlington Northern GE C30-7s pull hard on a coal train rounding Breezy Point west of Belmont, Nebraska, on the climb over Crawford Hill on July 7, 1996. In the background on the other side o... (more)

With a thunderstorm rumbling to the north, a loaded coal train approaches the summit of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska, on June 11, 1998. Motive power consists of three Burlington Northern GE ... (more)