BNSF 9206, the first SD60M painted in the "swoosh" scheme, heads into Superior, Wis. from the Twin Cities with a load of coal for the Midwest Energy Terminal.
This is not your Daddy's KCS. DPU AC's wait for the head end to be refueled on the mainline fueling pad at Heavener, offering this photo op with the backdrop of Rich Hill. I couldn't get over ho... (more)
Staples yard looks like it did 10+ years ago when it was a crew change point - filled with coal trains. Crews are changing here today on account of a derailment about 90 miles west of here.
CSX action led by a fresh 7826 is captured at Dolton, heading south on the UP.
Eastbound coalie interrupts the quiet Sunday afternoon passing the old depot in rural Maquon.
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.
A new BNSF hopper brings up the rear of a coal empties at the east of Peak Siding. Three SD60s power the opposing loads, with the experimentally painted 9297 in the middle position.
For a brief moment it almost looks like the WC lives on. WC 1562 pauses next to the cold 6005 before entering making its way down the P-Line.
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.
A trio of patched Warbonnets leads a loaded DEEX train through a reverse curve, just west of Aitkin, Minnesota.
Looking northward just east of the Altoona depot, centercab BS24m 8965 chugs by with a cut of coal. The freight depot is in the center of the photo.
Powder Basin coal makes its way east over the old Grand Trunk city of Battle Creek.
A new GE leads a slow moving coal train past an old barn in Kirkwood.
