A six axle quartet is fighting the grade on the Front Range of the Rockies known as the Joint Line. A set of helpers are also pushing on the rear of this coal train.
Westbound coal empties cross the Powder River at its mouth with the Yellowstone near Terry Mont.
A pair of SD60s suffice for moving these coal empties back to Glendive Yard, seen passing the entrance to the North Dakota Badlands National Park.
2nd OWY unit down, this coal load was down to a crawl through Glendo, but he made it down to Guernsey unassisted.
The morning Z train rolls east through Cliffs, WA behind an Oakway SD60.
A westbound stone train gets run around by a BNSF Merch, whose pushers are negotiating the horseshoe curve. Canon EOS 10D, 250@f8.0, 200mm
