The temperature is -17, and the thunderous roar of two 20 cylinder 645's in run 8 fill the frigid Winter air as two of the six remaining Montana Rail Link SD45's on lease to BNSF work West with a ... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal empty passes a field of sunflowers west of Hebron,ND on 7/28/12. The sunflowers for some reason didn't like the sun, as the flowers were facing the opposite direction of wher... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal empty heads into the siding to meet a couple of eastbounds at Hebron,ND on 7/29/12

Last light catches a GEVO and SD70ACe dragging an empty Superior train out of the siding at Hebron.

Golden fields of Winter wheat gently rustle in the breeze while an empty coal bucket for the PRB slows to take the siding.

A eastbound coal load is racing a gust front from a line of thunderstorms on a warm summer evening west of Hebron,ND 8/10/07. The field of sunflowers in the foreground are in full bloom, and are f... (more)

Close to sunset, the sun is filtered by smoke from fires in Montana as a westbound BNSF coal empty heads west for a refill of black diamonds, seen here in the rolling hills of Western North Dakota... (more)

A rather short Z train from Chicago,IL to Laurel, MT soaks up the last rays of sunlight as it approaches the home of Hebron Brick, Hebron, ND on 8/6/07. Smoke from fires in Montana have helped sub... (more)

BNSF 8293 leads a coal load eastbound just west of Hebron,ND, as it crosses into the Central Time Zone from the Mountain Time Zone on 8/5/07. The road I am standing on(and continues down the hill,... (more)

Another loaded coal train out of the coal fields breaks the silence as it rolls past a field of old farm equipment rusting along the mainline at Hebron.

The vastness of the prairies is more than enough to swallow a rolling mile of coal hoppers, bound for a return to the the Powder River coal mines.

A loaded ballast train from St Cloud, MN to Glendive, MT is meeting the BNSF 8242 east, CABMBEN coal train at the west switch at Hebron. This ballast train will wait on CSCMSUD load right behind t... (more)

An empty coal train with an eclectic mix of locomotive paint schmes (BNSF H2, ATSF warbonnet, BN cascade green, and BNSF swoosh) comes into the small town of Hebron

Hot August night in Hebron, ND shattered by a empty BNSF coal train.