Photo ID: 108096 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Reno Jct Campbell County, CO 677 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF A loaded BNSF coal train heads east (geographically south) on Main 3 through Reno Jct on clear signals. Meanwhile, another BNSF coal train slowly creeps underneath the West Black Thunder Mine tipple. A third BNSF coal train waits for a recrew north of the tipple in the distance, and a UP empty head west on Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108095 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Reno Jct Campbell County, CO 659 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF, Union Pacific Reno Jct is a fantastic place to spend a few hours as a railfan. You have signals in both directions from the Co-450 road overpass to help let you know when trains are lined through, and can see for nearly a mile to the south and about four miles to the north. It is not uncommon for trains to meet through here, such as in this shot. A UP empty on Main 2 meets a BNSF empty on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108094 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Reno Jct Campbell County, CO 658 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) Union Pacific This UP coal empty has clear signals and is moving at track speed westbound (geographically north) on Main 2 through Reno The nearest track is a lead for the line to the Black Thunder and East Black Thunder mines. After that track, you have Mains 1 through 3 from left to right. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108093 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Reno Jct Campbell County, CO 622 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF After making the trip 85 miles north from the south end of the Orin Sub, this BNSF coal empty is leaving the main tracks and entering the five mile spur out to East Black Thunder Mine. 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: 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: 108086 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bill Bill, WY 624 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) Union Pacific UP has a small yard at Bill, WY, about 45 miles north of the south end of the Powder River Basin. This is a crew change point for many UP trains on the way to or from the mine. A single UP empty awaits a recrew this morning, ready to head west to the mines. 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: 108084 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 29, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Bill Bill, WY 595 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Orin (BNSF) BNSF The sun is sinking in the western sky, revealing a brilliant sunset after evening storms. A southbound BNSF train passes through the OS of the West Bill Crossover on its way south on Main 1. 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. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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