The engineer of lead SD70MAC 8943 can view the rear Crawford helper set assisting his load of coal, from the PRB, across the valley. Formed from former BN SD60Ms and Warbonnet SD75Ms the Crawford ... (more)

A chance rolling meet on Crawford Hill as 9810 east slogging up the hill to Belmont, with its train wrapped around the aptly named Breezy Point, faces empties heading for another fill-up in the Po... (more)

The helpers add the needed horsepower to get up and over the West side of Crawford Hill.

BNSF 5145 leads what looks to be a Boeing high wide car down Crawford Hill while a set of helpers grind up the hill.

These unique rock formations dot the entire landscape around Crawford Hill.

The flowers look on as train after train head up and down Crawford Hill. Almost down the hill, BNSF 5982 is just miles from Crawford, NE.

With it's rear end on the other side of the horseshoe, a BNSF earthworm grain shuttle is about half way from Interbay, WA to Greenwood, IL.

I was still in High School when BN's SD70MAC's were state of the art. Hard to believe the 2nd unit is going on 14 years old. The steel coal hoppers are just plain ancient nowadays. Glad to see ... (more)

A scene that wouldn't look out of place in a National Park. Perhaps that's why from Edgemont, SD-Alliance, NE they call it the Butte Subdivision?

BNSF 6059 leads an eastbound coal load up Crawford Hill past MP 411, which can be seen a few cars back.

Three for the price of one! To the left, E MHDNAM creeps around Breezy Point on a Restricting signal, while in the upper right, loaded C JRMSLP passes the DPU on empty E PCBBTM. In 11 hours on C... (more)

Power River Basin coal winds it's way up Crawford Hill as a butte silently watches on.

Distributed power has certainly changed the look of coal trains. An empty E MHDNAM with a single unit is passing a loaded C JRMSLP with two DPU units and three unit helper K CWFCWF4 14. As you ... (more)

The lights of a mixed freight coming down the hill illuminate the exhaust of the helpers pushing their train up and over Crawford Hill.

Crawford hill is a great place to see hard working locomotives spue exhaust and clouds of sand from the sanders.