UP Train CNAOK9-23 with UP #5978 leading heads east bound down the PRB as the rain just stopped and a rainbow starts to appear in the background.
A brand new BNSF SD70ACe glistens in the early morning light as it brings up the rear of a BNSF coal empty near Douglas, Wyoming on the Orin Subdivision.
Early morning along the BNSF Orin Subdivision a few miles outside of Douglas, Wyoming finds a northbound BNSF coal empty heading back to the mines for another load.
The DPU's of a loaded BNSF train shove hard since the rails are recently wet. A double "t"rainbow also appears as the sun peaks out from behind the storm clouds.
UP 6651 leads a loaded coal train across Hwy 59 north of Douglas in June of 1998.
As the sun sets over the Powder River Basin, a lone DPU pushes another train of coal empties north for loading.
Empties meet loads on the coal line north of Douglas in June of 1998. Luck was with me as both trains were moving.
An loaded coal train from North Antelope approaches Converse Junction at high speed
A set of three signals guarding a section of track on the southern end of BNSF's Orin Subdivision stand tall as a line of threatening storm clouds pass overhead.
BNSF 8843 is northbound out of Glendo nearing Douglas with an empty coal train for the Powder River Basin.
Looking a little ragged but still out earning her keep, LTEX 210 (ex DM&IR) is assigned to a new Oil loading facility located outside of Douglas, WY.
A Union Pacific empty coal trains heads north at Bill, Wyoming at sunrise on May 30, 2009.
The days of this Oakway 9024 being front line coal power are dwindling by this date in 1998. However on this day she is still doing what she was built to do..... wheel slip screaming as she assau... (more)