BN power pulling coal empties waits as one of MP's coal service SD40-2s leads four more SD40-2s and a loaded coal train. I spent a lot of time in southeast Kansas in the 1980s, and saw lots of PR... (more)

A three-builder set of locomotives has an empty coal rain really rolling just a few minutes out from the yard at Corbin.

An empty coal train behind a single GECC - usual practice at the time - sits in the passing track as Opelika. What you cannot tell from the photo, is that five-year-old 7521 is dead as a doornail... (more)

L&N SD40-2s head for coal country with a train of empties returning from Florida.

I title this one "Golden Hour Reflections". With sunset quickly approaching, coal empties head north crossing the Tennessee River into downtown Knoxville on the KD Sub behind a pair of AC G... (more)

A quartet of grimy 18Es drag a load of coal empties into Arbor on the Witbank coalfields. The tail of the train can be seen stretching away on the left

Soo Line 2500-A leads an empty coal train being returned from storage on the North Shore Scenic Railroad to BNSF Railway in Duluth.

Westbound coal empties catch the last rays of golden light as they work back to the Powder River for another load.

In between snow squalls, the BNSF 9685 runs through what remains of the small yard at Wilpen. In it's heyday, Wilpen was used more for staging natural ore loads and empties from the various local ... (more)

BNSF 9685 leads it's train of coal empties through the yard at Kelly Lake, MN passing an old BN caboose on a work train in the process.

BNSF 9685 pulls it's train of coal empties slowly through the yard at Kelly Lake, MN getting ready to take the signal to head back south to Superior, WI and ultimately back out west for more loads... (more)

Coal empties depart Superior and Detroit Edison's Midwest Energy Resources dock headed back for another load of PRB coal. MERC is BNSF's largest single coal destination. The city of Duluth, MN ca... (more)

A Westbound coal empty makes it's way up the steps of the hill into Sawyer, MN on the Brainerd sub.

Another train of "empty buckets" is departing the Ft. Worth area and glides effortlessly through Saginaw as this BNSF frieght with 120 cars returns to the Powder River Basin. It's the "dog days" ... (more)

CN 5711 leads an empty Farmersville coal train south across the mostly frozen waters of Lake Springfield. Once loaded at the Crown II mine, this train will head north to Cedar Rapids, via Peoria ... (more)