Dragging up Crawford Hill with Crow Butte in the background.

BN 5032 is starting its assault on Crawford hill with a loaded coal train in May of 1990.

A former Burlington Northern caboose, now painted in the BNSF orange, is on display at a park in Crawford, Nebraska, along US Highway 20.

High atop a rock we get a birds eye view of train C-BTMCOB0-81A heading around the horseshoe curve, The head end is on the left rounding the curve at Breezy Point as the Helper set with the DPU's ... (more)

BNSF #6263 leads the C-BTMSAI0-20A, The head end is in the back ground as the Hepler Set with the DPU shove hard to get over Crawford Hill

A shot I know I had to get with the Drone on Crawford Hill, BNSF #9324 leads the C-WTMPAM1-25A up Crawford Hill at 10 MPH as it makes it way around the horseshoe curve at Breezy Point with the hel... (more)

BNSF train C-WTMPAM1-25A is rounding the top of the horseshoe curve known as Breezy Point. With two engines up front and three on the rear, it's taking everything they have to maintain 10mph.

Yet another coal train begins the climb up Crawford Hill. Typically eastbound loads, one behind another, stopped west of the old C&NW crossing at the foot of the grade to add helpers - at this ti... (more)

In a 13-minute exposure, a BNSF train rolls through the first loop as it heads up Crawford Hill.

A BNSF DPU pushes an empty coal train towards the setting sun, its descent down Crawford Hill complete.

A string of empty coal hoppers head back to the Powder River Basin having just descended famous Crawford Hill in western Nebraska.

A loaded coal train begins its climb up Crawford Hill on a clear summer morning.

Three Grinstien SD70macs make their way around the horseshoe towards Breezy Point. The grade here is 1.55% and the train has 4 SD40-2s pushing hard on the rear.... The landscape here looks very mu... (more)

Whiteface C30-7 5032, starts its assault on Crawford Hill in May of 1990.

With an eastbound coal load crawling up the hill, BNSF 9676 is in full dynamics trying to keep its train below 20 mph as the train starts into the middle of 3 horseshoe curves, known as Upper Hors... (more)