BNSF & UP Coal Trains in Powder River Basin

This video shows a BNSF and a Union Pacific coal train passing by a large coal mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. Another Union Pacific train was also being loaded at the mine. Video was shot on July 25, 2009.

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• BNSF
• UP
• union
• pacific
• coal
• train
• trains
• railroad
• railfan
• powder
• river
• basin
• wy
• wyoming

[o00o00ozy]

Nice, love the PRB. Question, how windy is it out there?

[HyndmanHelper]

@o00o00ozy Yeah, it was pretty breezy. This video we were standing on a ridge overlooking the tracks. The problem is there aren't any trees or anything to block the wind.

[TheMadNorsky]

Nice video. Well done! Interesting for me to note the difference in the size of the load per car between the BNSF train and the UP train. Was the UP train just that much longer, requiring a smaller load per car(there were two DPU's on the UP train)????? Again, well done!

[HyndmanHelper]

Actually, I'm pretty sure the UP train was empty, it could have been going to one of the mines in the north end of the basin. All of the trains I saw in the basin were very long (100+ cars) and required DPU's. I couldn't tell why some had 1 and some had 2. We did notice that the different mines loaded cars differently, so if one pays close attention, one might be able to tell which train came from which mine by the shape of the coal load.

[iusetano]

Excellent video *****. Hope you have more.

[HyndmanHelper]

Thanks! I plan to upload more videos from my trip later this week.

[UP5140SD70M]

The BNSF Coal with the 70MAC In the lead had no problem moving, EMD's re much better hauling coal GE's are the worst in my opinion

[gmcxm211]

this is Cordero Mine

[EMD710G]

Sweet PRB, great job been waiting to get some good shots from that area...5star.

[germantrainfan]

great video 5*****

[rdrogel]

BNSF Coal:

Leaders: 9941 & 9229

DPU: 8852

UP Coal:

Leaders: 6754 & 6047

DPU's: 6768 & 6921

[TheMadNorsky]

OMG, you are so right on the UP train. I thought it was only partially full when I first watched, but upon a second review, just shadow and empty. My bad! Still, great video and thanks for responding. Much appreciated!