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You are in the CarrTracks website Picture Gallery. Powder River Basin in Wyoming Train Picture GalleryThe country's newest main line was built in stages from 1972 to 1979 to reach the coal deposits in the Powder River Basin. The first segment was from Donkey Creek at the north end to the Belle Ayr mine. By the end of 1975 the line had reached Coal Creek 26 miles south of Donkey Creek. a year later, the BN completed a branch from just west of Donkey Creek to Eagle Butte to serve mines northeast of Gillette. The Orin Line was finally completed in October 1979. Competition came to the PRB when the C&NW completed a line from Joyce, NE to connect with its Cowboy Line at Crandall, WY in 1984. |
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This series of pictures begins on the Cowboy Line and works it way west and north to the Black Thunder mine. These pictures were shot on two days in 1992. All pictures are on disk 81. If you would like more information on UP and BNSF coal trains, you should get my book. Look for the 2008 compendium near the bottom of the books page. Barnes
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