A loaded Palos bound coal train arrives on Main 2 about to go under the 10th Street bridge in Alliance as another train follows behind in the distance.
Lost coal power leads an Eastbound stacker into Minot for a crew change.
southbound BNSF coal load Monument, CO
Dairyland Power coal loads
The cows and calves have learned to ingore the daily parade of coal trains, as a trio of EMDs wheel a coal train through Crystal Springs.
Spring appears to be finally taking hold as the ice melts from a pond east of Sanborn. In the distance a string of Railbox boxcars are stored on the branch to Rogers, North Dakota.
With fully applied dynamic brakes and a set on the train line, the engineer is in control of this loaded coal train as it decends into the James River valley.
A loaded coal train skims just feet above the ice covered surface of a lake, just a couple miles east of Clevland.
