Nonstop Coal Trains Battling Logan Hill in Wyoming's Powder River Basin
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- 5/22/23:
This video takes us into the heart of Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the largest coal-producing region in the United States and home to the four-track BNSF Orin Subdivision. Every day, dozens of coal trains utilize this trackage to access one of the many mines in the area, making for an almost endless stream of rail traffic. The long straightaways and limited vegetation mean that there is rarely a time of the day when a train isn't in sight. This video will specifically focus on the famous Logan Hill, where fresh 18,000-ton loaded BNSF & UP coal trains roll by at full throttle to get up the 1% grade. The heavy trains and high-horsepower action combined with the beautiful Wyoming landscape make for one of the coolest places to watch trains in the country.
Subdivision(s):
BNSF Orin Subdivision
Location(s) In Order of Appearance:
Logan Hill, WY
Bill, WY
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That was a pleasure to watch! These big trains in this outstanding landsacpe, just awesome! Thank you from Germany
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
Just wait - those GEVOs are about to take over.
We have motorways shorter than that train! 🇬🇧👍🏻
Yep and slower (fellow Brit ) 😂
The sheer power of all those locomotives is insane,you guys have mega long and heavy trains to there. Great video
Thanks! Certainly is an impressive sight
They're averaging about 120 coal hoppers per train, last I heard... Each car gets loaded with 90-100 tons of coal... So that's around 12,000 tons... Any one of those 6-axle road locomotives tip the scales at over 400,000 lbs... A friend once told me, "...it's easier to pull a load than to carry a load..." Don't mind me, I'm just sittin' here rambling...
why are the locomotive being stored out of service? there plenty of rail busses, correct? @RiverLineProductions
Very impressive video. Thank you!
So much effort and patience to bring this perfect document to us. Thank you again!
Excellent captures and long video. Greetings from Poland. 👍
Many thanks for curing my insomnia, I’ll definitely be back for more.👍😎
Awesome catches, definitely nothing but coal trains, neat to see an intermodal as well! Love that tanker train as well on the Black Hills Sub
USA has some powerful diesel locomotives. Awesome to watch as I model American railways all the way in Australia.
Fantastic footage, wow! On my bucket list for sure!
Thanks!
That string of parked engines is insane!! Thanks for sharing loved the black cows in the foreground also very cool.
Thanks from UK as I took many photos from this location a few years ago and just new it was near Gillette, not its exact spot of Logan Hill milepost 69
Now retired...our power plant received 12 to 15 of these trains a week. Average 100 to 125 cars long. They're incredible.
Which power plant?
@@highteckredneck1980 Michigan, Monroe. 4 units. About 3300 megawatts when all 4 at full capacity. That occurred occasionally, but not too often.
I watch a train video daily of a system in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Very low key but enjoyable. This, however, is major league level train video. The amount of locomotives and the length of the trains is astounding. Great video production.
Good Channel, Greetings from a German Railfan to US 👍🏻
I live near Fillmore and I -25 in Colorado Springs. Many of those same trains pass in their hushed grandeur on the 2.5% downhill grade. Chugging the empties back home.
Colorado Springs is definitely on my bucket list, seen lots of pictures of these trains from around there
@@RiverLineProductions Castle Rock, Greenland and the Monument area likely has some catch worthy spots.
I worked at one of the open pit coal mines near Gillette . Driving the giant WABCO diesel-electric trucks was quite an experience. Watching the BN trains loading coal was a near constant process. The whole effort from mining, processing coal, loading trains was a well coordinated effort that continued 24/7.
It sure seems like quite the operation, in the time we were they they loaded and turned around multiple of the empty trains we saw which was quite impressive
45:55 - "GEVO" referres to the type of locomotive engine used to pull the trains. Sometimes these train videos use lingo that is unfamiliar to novice railfans like myself.
beautiful 👍👍👍
Greetings from Germany
what a great place to put a live cam
Would certainly be cool! Would love to see a 24 hour log of how many go by here
Love the optical illusion of the camera optics plays on the trains' lengths. Perfect example is at 45:36. It appears to be a relatively short train. That is until you get to 47:04. Then it's "DAMN" that's long.
Nice captures! The PRB is quite a sight to behold.
Thanks! Yeah, no where else like it in the country
Very nice video, hoping to head up there soon as it's a relatively short trip for me to see one of the coolest logistical operations in the country.
Thanks! Yes it is indeed one of the coolest, amazing how smoothly it works!
Hi it's me again I used to load our truck of 16 tonnes and 21 tonnes in the UK
I remember seeing this yard when I went to Gillette, endless lines of locomotives. (2:30)
Nice Job. 💯👏
Thanks!
❤ hi it nice to see you did I good job 👍
Hi you did a great job on the trains
Great video! Started at 38:50 I love seeing huge, heavy coal trains battling the grade with exhaust blasting out of the stacks, and the prime movers roaring. I am assuming that that train is in run 8, although it might be a little too slow for that.
Merci Jacques
Some nice video from the region and very familiar country for me after living in Casper for a while... There's still a lot of stored older power out at Rozet but it has thinned a wee bit, at least. I still drive by several times a year on WY51 (usually transporting oversized oilfield loads from northwestern North Dakota down to our sister yard in Casper). WY59 has some great spots for video and stills (I still shoot down there when I am able), both north and south of Gillette. At least you were there when it was warm and only had a mild breeze by all appearances... Rare for that area! :)
Nice Captures
I used to live in Gillette. Live in Glenrock now, which also has a rich history of coal mining. We still have Dave Johnston power plant.
Wow! Awesome video! Man, would I like to see a drone flyover of all of those parked engines!
That track must see an insane amount of freight on a monthly basis
Yup, years ago I think this stretch saw over 80 trains a day, it’s probably around 50-60 now I want to say
These tracks are among the busiest in the country.
amazing all those locomotives..wow to say the least !!
My uncle worked at Bill for CNW. Busy place he told me.
Awesome video!
First time I have seen 9009 since it was new. In Lincoln Nebr. Along with 9010 back in I think 2017.
49:00 that’s the Cochise coal train. I happened to catch the same consist on a Empty run to a New Mexico coal mine
Looks like Galveston railyard, Hundreds of engines from the 60's, thru the 90's. Just sitting there rusting away.
Am I the only one who dreams of my own personal locomotive? Nice little private train to play with
bucket list for me
😄
10 months before Trump and he will take credit for the last 100 years of coal.
16:18 is there a reason why there's so much space in between the tracks?
It makes WARREN & HOWARD BUFFET,,, REALLY, REALLY,, HAPPY.🤗🤗🧐💰💰💰💯👍🇺🇸
They should rebuild all stored engine and make them readey for the line !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Years ago I read that there is enough coal in the Powder River Basin to fill one ten thousand ton coal train each hour for one hundred and ten years.
That's a lot of coal...
dude great video of them coal train and thats rear right a intermodal going through
these trains reminds me of poor shoestring ..rip brother !!
Hi thanks for the video I'm in the u k United kingdom what is th tonnage of these wagons please
2:30 BNSF 9939 was involved in the cactus train collision as the second loco of BNSF 5942s train
vwery nice
1:20:35 Returning from Eastern Missouri.
all the macs will be scrapped, some of the GP, SD40s and other randoms will most likely be put back into service if the work allows.
BNFS sure adds plenty of front end power.
❤❤😮😮Nice.
wow what a beautiful and spectacle view of landscape how far is cheyenne from here
Cheyenne is about 6 hours south
@@haroldwilkerson2026you can really forget how massive Wyoming is
48:50 niceee. T4 EMD
They sure look good in UP!
I wonder if all of these stored locomotives belong to the railroad or are they still under lease agreements from the owners?
At 11:50....that train is on main 2, not main 3.
GREAT VIDEO!! Suggestion.... Please, put a "muffler" on your "mike".... would really help cut down on the nearly Never ending Wyoming Wind noise. Thanks again fro your efforts... much appreciated!! PS: I counted 108 locomotives in the lineup, including 23 that I could see on the far side of the yard.... ALL EMD's !! Should be.. All GE's!!
You do realize that “yard east of Gillette” is Donkey Creek Yard? Just to the west is Donkey creek Junction.
An extra like for the video length :D "1:23:45"
Do you guydshave notch limits down there?
Que grande que sos o son sugun convenga como se deben de imaginar soy un loco por estos mastodontes y los felicito porque son los unico que encontre que ponen la marca y modelo de las locomotoras, siempre quise saber cual es una u otra y me encantan las GE ,ahora mas que ya encuentro mas diferencias entre una y otra como por ejemplo la parte de refrigeracion y el frente
live in virginia we get alot of coal passing thru from west va going to the port in norfolk va to be shipped over seas. does wyoming do the same or where does most of there coal go?
Most of the coal will go to the power plant in central US & export via the port of Robert Bank, Vancouver, BC.
How come there's only two units in the front? Is it just not feasible for more than two in the front and two in the back to balance the power and weight?
Some trains only require two units.
Show this to a Greenie and let the hysterics begin....
Ha ha I
Thought the same thing. Regards from Australia
It’s hauling coal to power EVs, so it’s green.
_Black_ Hill not Black _Hill_ in my view…
how often do they maintain these coal cars ?? some are sqeeking and others are making a bumping sound, what happens when a long train carrying fully loaded coal train cars and one of the cars wheels fail or bearings burn up ..what then ?
22:40
What is BNSFs deal with those old EMDs?
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hello @30:10 would that be a Bonnet
I know we will never catch a video of this large locomotives and trains passing by or near a CAT mine dump truck because they are not planned to be in the same area as one another. But I would like to see the size and power together.
Why do they start the hill going so slow? Don’t you want to speed up to compensate for the incline. Someone with knowledge please explain
Doesn’t really matter. By the time your train is completely on the hill you’re gonna be going about as fast as you can anyway. The speed limits on grades are based on descent to reduce runaways.
I worked at a mine loading trains-I have worked on a shortline that handles unit grain trains.
The mine like most had a grade coming out of the loadout. The way it was setup is that it was not possible to get a run on the hill as you were still coming across the outbound scale.
Although it was a bit challenging, 3 units would grunt up to 135 cars up the grade. Normally it was 3 units and 124 or 125 cars. We had a few shorter sets of 120 and a few 132's. I think I had 3 on a 135 but it may have been 4.
However, if it was only 3 units and 125 or more, BNSF you send a manned helper out of Donkey Creek or Gillette for the climb out of Donkey Creek on the Orin Sub.
How many horsepower is the locomotive?
Each one is either generally 43 or 4400 horsepower
The power of economics. Have train, will move.
They appear to have very clean burning engines, if that’s the right terminology? No dirty ‘clag’ from the exhaust despite the huge power required to move such massive trains.
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Excuse the ignorance but what does DPU stand for? Thanks.
@@popcornmike7 Distributed power unit.
@@locoman44.86 Thanks locoman!
@@popcornmike7 no worries.
Does each railroad car carrie 18,000 tons?!?! How many rail road cars are behind the train driver? I stopped counting after 50 carriers. I wasn’t even half through.
Each railcar carries around 100 tons of coal.
They should use all the coal cash and build a wall of solar and wind parks ^^
There is soooooo much space, crazy 😅
Looks like a normal climb
4:02
9969…nice
Bring a up challenger here
Is there a speed restriction for tanker trains ????😊😊
The tracks have a speed limit and the
Individual train will have a speed limit
That's set by the dispatcher. And then
They have what's called the yard limit
For trains going into a yard of generally
10 mph track limit for freight trains are maxed at 40 to 50 Amtrak will
Generally run 10 mph faster then the freight trains
@@BrucePerkins-mc3hp thanks for the reply!!!!🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂👍👍🍺🍺🍺
Plenty of missels buried in them thar hills.
20:50
I can actually UNDERSTAND this dispatcher !!!!! You listen to radio traffic elsewhere and it's gibberish....
Yup they're pretty clear out there
Think of all the money in engines there....
Decades of the investment and innovation. All sitting in one lot
I used to live in Kentucky 5 am every morning Id need the toilet.
Looks hot, dusty and barren out there.
Certainly not much around!
How long is a typical Coltrane.
Depends on the song
cool
Gift it to Africa
Just put it on 2x speed lol
EV fuel, on its way to your fave 'green' location!
Another long train hauling coal to power EVs.
Where is it?
From india
mega trains of coal equal mega bucks .