Big Sky Coal
On the tail of a westbound stacker, BNSF #9701 rolls into Billings, Montana loaded with black diamonds from Wyoming's Powder River Basin. At right is a string of petroleum coke loads from the Phillips 66 refinery.
The depot on the left was built in 1909 to serve the Northern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and to a lesser extent, the Great Northern. The station saw its last train in 1979 when Amtrak discontinued the North Coast Hiawatha, the successor to the Northern Pacific's historic Mainstreeter.
Big Sky Coal
On the tail of a westbound stacker, BNSF #9701 rolls into Billings, Montana loaded with black diamonds from Wyoming's Powder River Basin. At right is a string of petroleum coke loads from the Phillips 66 refinery.
The depot on the left was built in 1909 to serve the Northern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and to a lesser extent, the Great Northern. The station saw its last train in 1979 when Amtrak discontinued the North Coast Hiawatha, the successor to the Northern Pacific's historic Mainstreeter.