Photo ID: 108109 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Logan Hill Converse County, WY 623 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) Union Pacific, BNSF A UP coal load in the foreground is just coming over the top of Logan Hill as a BNSF coal load, with one more DPU, picks up a little speed heading down the other side of the hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108108 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Logan Hill Converse County, WY 638 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) Union Pacific About five miles to the west (geographic north), this BNSF coal load on Main 3 started to overtake the UP coal load on Main 1. Now that about half of the BNSF train has crested the top of Logan Hill, it is starting to pick up even more speed, really leaving the UP train behind. You can see the DPUs on the BNSF load pass the head end of the UP load in the associated video! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108107 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Logan Hill Converse County, WY 605 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF Approaching the top of Logan Hill on Main 3, this BNSF coal load is passing by empty cars that are being stored on Main 4. In the distance, a UP coal load is also taking on the hill on Main 1, working hard to reach the summit. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108106 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Logan Hill Converse County, WY 609 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF, Union Pacific The race is on! Well, not literally. These load coal trains are both heading eastbound (geographically south) up Logan Hill. The BNSF train has four engines (2x2) whereas the UP train only has three engines (2x1), allowing the BNSF train to go a bit faster up the hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108092 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Converse Jct Converse County, WY 633 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF A pair of DPUs bring up the tail end of a westbound coal empty on Main 2 just west of Converse Jct. The loadout for the Antelope Mine is visible near the top-left corner of the frame, busy loading a train right at the moment this shot was taken. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108091 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Converse Jct Converse County, WY 652 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF A westbound coal empty charges north at track speed (50 MPH) on Main 2 as it passes through Converse Jct and by the Antelope mine. A string of stored hoppers sits silently on Main 4, two tracks to the right of the empty on Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108090 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Antelope Mine Converse County, WY 742 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This is an aerial view of one of 11 coal loadouts found in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. This particular loadout is the Antelope loadout, the southern most loadout in the Powder River Basin. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108089 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Antelope Mine Converse County, WY 739 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF One of three trains starts to make its away around the balloon track, ready to proceed underneath the tipple at the Antelope Mine and load up. Two other empties will have to wait a bit longer for their turn to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108088 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Antelope Mine Converse County, WY 650 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF The five staging tracks at Antelope Mine are currently all filled up with trains. Three trains are empty and waiting to be loaded. One train has already loaded and is waiting for a crew to take it east. One line of cars - the second from the right - is a string of empty hoppers currently being stored as there is no demand for them right now. The empty set with the sole SD70ACe for power is currently move away from the camera at 2 MPH, getting ready to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108087 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Antelope Mine Converse County, WY 626 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 9063, the rear DPU on a coal empty, is slowly moving away from the camera at 2 MPH as this particular empty prepares to go under the tipple to load up with coal. It is one of three empties waiting for its turn to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108085 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 88.7 Converse County, WY 660 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF A few miles south of Bill, this loaded BNSF nacelle train has clear signals on Main 1. The train will leave the Powder River Basin about 40 miles ahead, entering BNSF's Canyon Sub so it can continue to its destination. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108083 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 77 Converse County, WY 665 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF The Orin Subdivision is 127 miles long and has 11 coal loadouts over that stretch. It is extremely rare to find a non-coal train running in the Powder River Basin, but such was the case on this lucky evening as an eastbound (geographic southbound) BNSF train came through carrying Vestas windmill nacelles. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108082 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Logan Hill Converse County, WY 674 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) Union Pacific After an evening rainstorm passed by, a westbound UP coal empty on Main 2 meets a rare non-coal train heading east on Main 1. The eastbound train is carrying Vestas nacelles, the power plant used on windmills. Note the faint rainbow visible in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108081 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 77 Converse County, WY 601 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF, Union Pacific The Powder River Basin (Orin Subdivision) has a stretch of four main tracks over a roughly 20 mile stretch of track going over Logan Hill. With the recent downturn in the demand for coal, traffic in the Powder River Basin has dropped. In addition, there is less of a need for hoppers to haul coal. To kill two birds with one stone, UP and BNSF have stored over a dozen completely train sets of open hoppers on Main 4 in the Powder River Basin. You can see several of those train sets here. Mains 1 through 3 are clear and available for running trains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108080 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 97.9 Converse County, WY 612 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF One of the earliest ES44AC "GEVO" units on BNSF's roster brings up the tail end of an eastbound coal load on Main 2 as afternoon thunderstorms build to the west. The train has about 30 minutes left to go before exiting the south end of the Powder River Basin. 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