UP 6803 emerges from a thunderstorm north of Shawnee, WY on the joint BN/CNW coal line in May of 1998.
An empty coal train passes by the DPUs of a loaded train.
BNSF 9843 heads south out of the Powder River Basin past Shawnee Junction with loads of coal.
Coal moves out the Powder River Basin past an abandoned school house in Shawnee, Wyoming as darkness covers the landscape.
By 1990 the Soo Line was long gone from my Upper Michigan haunts and the WC still held little interest to me with the mixed power sets of units roaming the area in their former owners paint scheme... (more)
Coal Empties enroute to the PRB
Coming off the renovated portion of the CNW "Cowboy", about to turn north and head to the Powder River with empty coal hoppers, 2 CNW SD40-2s and 2 UP U30Cs poke in and out of typical-for-the-seas... (more)
A patched Southern Pacific AC4400CW leads an UP SD9043MAC on a coal drag in Wyoming.
