Railfanning Wyoming and Montana - 3A, Powder River Basin

Hi, We spent two very productive days in the Powder River Basin. Therefore, I will be dividing the the blog posts into four parts. This one covers the morning of the first day.

We drove over to the BNSF yard just east of Donkey Creek Junction. Nothing seemed to be happening so we returned to Donkey Creek Jcn. where we spotted coal empties about to head south into the coal fields. We caught the train at the point where Brunsen Rd. crosses the track south of Donkey Creek Junction (above and below).

Bishop Road, south of Caballo Mine provided our next photo location (above and two below).

Next we moved to Cordero Rojo Junction where T-7 Road crosses the track. A loaded coal train sat waiting for a road crew to take it north to Donkey Creek Junction (above and two below).

Cordero Rojo Mine is in the background.

Soon an empty coal train headed north for loading.

A Union Pacific empty coal train followed the BNSF train north past the waiting coal loads.

Crossing T-7 Rd. to the north side of the bridge resulted in photos of the DPUs (above and below).

Thanks for looking.