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990745 Outbound Union
Pacific coal train, Logan
Hill, Wyo.

Powder River Basin stock photos 2

This is an additional page of sample images from my extensive coverage of the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and Montana.

The PRB contains the largest deposit of low sulfur coal in North America and therefore also has the highest freight train density on the continent, consisting almost entirely of unit coal trains.

The images presented here and on my other PRB page are only intended as samples. I have several thousand images from several trips to this area. (I also have images of coal trains elsewhere.)

Click on the images to view a larger version.

Click here to go to my introductory PRB page.

990753 Outbound loaded coal train on Logan Hill, Wyo. The other tracks are momentarily quiet.
010717 Inbound empty coal train heading for the loading silos of a mine.
951275 Inbound empty coal train at the northern end of the Orin line in Wyoming, with mine loading silos in the background

951018 Track construction machine laying down concrete ties and the threading rails onto them.
950486 Long string of flatcars loaded with heavy-duty concrete ties to be used by track construction equipment in laying new track.

010705 Southbound loaded coal train at Logan Hill, Wyo. The track in the foreground had been newly laid at the time the photo was made.
951300 Loaded unit coal train from the Powder River Basin on Crawford Hill, Nebr. This hill is one of the main obstacles for trains bound south and east from the PRB.

990799 Train traffic jam on Logan Hill, Wyo., at sunset.
990773 Inbound BNSF empty meeting an outbound Union Pacific loaded coal train on Logan Hill, Wyo.

990948 Remote controlled locomotive at rear of outbound loaded coal train near Bill, Wyo.
010720 Dragline working in mine pit

Click here to go to my introductory PRB page.

For information on my guidebook to the Powder River Basin:

The Powder River Basin
A guide to America's Power Railroading Base
By Ernest H. Robl

click on the above link.

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