At East Alliance, on the Sand Hills Sub, the power is cut from a loaded coal train that is bound for the Robert W Scherer Power Plant in Georgia. The train on the right is bound for the Alabama Po... (more)
High priority freight train from Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN, to Tulsa, OK, rolls along the Mississippi River south of LaCrosse.
A westbound BNSF empty unit coal train climbs upgrade through an S curve near Mullen, NE.
It took an hour to see my first train.
Eastbound coal swings around the curve at Middletown, Iowa on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub.
The engineer gives me a short blast on a beautiful afternoon.
