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Big Skies & Iron Rails, Powder River Basin Coal Trains

By Tom Danneman Art Director | December 9, 2022

| Last updated on April 29, 2024


Follow BNSF and Union Pacific trains hauling over Logan Hill in Wyoming

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There may be no better place than Logan Hill to highlight hard-working, heavy-haulin’ railroads in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. In this exploration of BSIR, Tom documents the parade of trains along the impressive, shared BNSF/Union Pacific four-track mainline through Thunder Basin National Grassland.

While this territory is often maligned as “fly-over country”, Tom’s videography and still photography captures its austere beauty in an artistic manner that can’t be ignored. Add to that a steady stream of coal trains, and you have a location primed for railfanning… the Big Skies & Iron Rails way!

Want to learn more about the railroading action in this region? Read Tom’s “24 Hours on Logan Hill” article in the December 2022 issue of Trains magazine. And If that’s not enough, you can also catch Tom leading the high-energy, “Drew’s Trackside Adventure, Episode 17” into the Powder River Basin. There’s always something more to explore — exclusively on Trains.com!

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