BNSF 8208 Grand Forks 29 Jul 07
BNSF 8208 leads a Clay Boswell coal empty out of the yard and around the wye for the Hillsboro Sub as it departs Grand Forks, ND.
I had previously caught this train thundering west across the border in Minnesota:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/40432108863/
This was typical power for northern plains coal trains in the mid-2000s (SD75s, Oakways, SD60Ms), but there was a period in 2007 that saw a glut of AC-power leading coal...a harbinger of things to come. Soon, the era of DC-powered coal trains would come to an end.
BNSF 8208 Grand Forks 29 Jul 07
BNSF 8208 leads a Clay Boswell coal empty out of the yard and around the wye for the Hillsboro Sub as it departs Grand Forks, ND.
I had previously caught this train thundering west across the border in Minnesota:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/40432108863/
This was typical power for northern plains coal trains in the mid-2000s (SD75s, Oakways, SD60Ms), but there was a period in 2007 that saw a glut of AC-power leading coal...a harbinger of things to come. Soon, the era of DC-powered coal trains would come to an end.