A pair of GP9s lead the "Work Train" back to the yard at Hayden. The train consisted of a b/o ore car, a flat with a bulldozer, an empty flat and 5 side dump ballast cars.
A trio of CBRY GP39s guide 53 loads towards the dumper at Hayden.
CBRY 403 leads 54 empties back to the mine for another load.
A big difference between the East and West I noticed the very first day was that spectacular sunsets where much more common out here. Here is one such example.
Teapot Mountain looms in the distance as Copper Basin Railway GP39-2 403 (ex-KCCX 3) leads train OT-1 eastbound with 60 cars loaded with 7800 tons of sulfide ore from the copper mine at Ray.
This HK Porter loco was built in 1925 in Pittsburgh, and did mine duty for Kennecott Copper Corp. until 1955. It was powered by compressed air.
Copper Basin Railway train OT1, with 60 loaded hoppers of copper ore, approaches tunnel 3.
