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Grinding Up Grade

UP SD70ACe #8714 and an ex-Southern Pacific AC44 are giving it everything they got to pull loaded coal train CBTWL up Logan Hill in the arid Thunder Basin Grasslands. This train was loaded at Black Thunder Mine, and is destined for Union Electric's 2,389-megawatt Labadie Power Station near Labadie, Missouri.

 

The pounding roar of motors and droning roll of heavy railcars creeping uphill made for a memorable experience at this classic Powder River Basin location.

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Uploaded on January 13, 2023
Taken on August 1, 2022