William Krieg
Getting Underway
One of the core pieces of traffic making up the Montana Rail Link’s overhead traffic for BNSF is the large fleets of coal trains that shuttle Powder River Basin sub-bituminous coal from the mines in Wyoming and Montana to Roberts Bank, British Columbia for export to overseas customers. Seen here at De Smet with a fresh crew ready to handle the run from Missoula, Montana to Spokane, Washington, these coal loads still have quite a long run ahead of them before reaching their unloading point.
Getting Underway
One of the core pieces of traffic making up the Montana Rail Link’s overhead traffic for BNSF is the large fleets of coal trains that shuttle Powder River Basin sub-bituminous coal from the mines in Wyoming and Montana to Roberts Bank, British Columbia for export to overseas customers. Seen here at De Smet with a fresh crew ready to handle the run from Missoula, Montana to Spokane, Washington, these coal loads still have quite a long run ahead of them before reaching their unloading point.