Photo ID: 108115 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 718 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF To help illustrate how (relatively) slow things are for the railroads right now, only of these yard tracks has something on it that is actually being used at the moment! The cars to the left are all in storage. The engines to the right are also all in storage. The hoppers to the left of the power are actually part of a current train that is waiting for a recrew to depart the yard for the Powder River Basin to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108114 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 841 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While SD70MACs and C44-9Ws dominate the stored power in Donkey Creek yard, there are a few other units that can be found here. Such is the case for BNSF 2324, a GP38-2, buried in the middle of a string of units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108113 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 789 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This telephoto shot helps bring in to perspective just how many units BNSF currently has stored in Donkey Creek Yard. There are about 100 units on each of five different yard tracks. You can clearly see the vast numbers of Grinstein SD70MACs in storage here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108112 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 746 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF There were quite a few C44-9Ws in storage in Donkey Creek Yard in Gillette, WY at the time of this photo. Those included a smattering of Warbonnets, or "Pink-bonnets", as some refer to the now-faded classic ATSF scheme. BNSF 649 is one such example, sitting at the head of a string of 100+ units stored on one of the yard tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108111 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 845 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Got Power? With the decline in coal and downturn in the economy thanks to COVID-19, a lot of power is now in storage on Class 1 railroads. Case-in-point is Donkey Creek Yard. BNSF has roughly 500 units stored here. Mostly SD70MACs and C44-9Ws, but some others thrown in to the mix as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.