Joint action on the Joint Line at Logan Hill in the Powder River Basin. BNSF 9178 leads a coal train falling behind a UP train on the far right track. Meantime a northbound empty train roll be in ... (more)

Joint action on the Joint Line at Logan Hill in the Powder River Basin. Two southbound coal trains approach the underpass as they climb upgrade from the Antelope Mine area towards Bill, WO. this r... (more)

A BNSF coal train passes a windmill south of Bill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on July 5, 2019.

A lone GE AC4400CW pushes a northbound Union Pacific empty coal train at the end of a rainy day in Powder River Basin south of Bill, Wyoming, on May 3, 2007.

A northbound Union Pacific coal train led by a pair of GE AC4400CWs passes a golden sunset on a rainy day south of Bill, Wyoming, on May 3, 2007.

Under a brilliant Wyoming sunset south of Bill, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads out of the Powder River Basin on June 29, 2002.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads south on the Orin Line at sunset south of Bill, Wyoming, on June 29, 2002.

It was cloudy and rainy all day on May 3, 2007, in Powder River Basin—until, of course, the very end of the day. The tiny slot of clear weather never got any closer as coal train after coal trai... (more)

A southbound BNSF coal train approaches the Highway 59 overpass north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 21, 2019. It’ll be interesting to note how much longer there will be enough tonnage to justify fou... (more)

A stout, wooden tie that once supported heavy trains rolling over steel rails is now holding up just a few barbed wires and fencing—and planted into the soil vertically like the tree it once was... (more)

A southbound Union Pacific coal train lights up the night as it crosses Logan Hill on Track 3 north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 21, 2019.

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 7272 leads a BNSF coal train southbound just north of Bill, Wyoming, on July 5, 2019, and is passing the sight of a recent derailment, with several demolished cars an... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMD SD70ACe locomotives drag coal empties over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 21, 2019.

Late in the afternoon of July 4, 2019, Mother Nature decided to provide some of her own fireworks over Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Torrential rain, lots of lightning and some wind sent us into... (more)

Converse Junction sits near the bottom of Logan Hill, in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The tracks on the left of the photo reach into the Belle Ayer Mine. Belle Ayr opened in 1972 and is the oldes... (more)