951272 Headed by three SD70MAC General Motors Locomotives, an empty 110-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe unit coal train heads for the loading silos of one of the several dozen large surface coal mines of the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Because of its many interlockings, this section of the BNSF Orin Line is known as "Absolute Alley." The train is just passing West Caballo Jct., the connection to the Caballo mine.

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