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A newish BNSF EMD SD70ACe leads a southbound coal train through Converse Junction in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 18, 2015.
On the afternoon of August 1, 2022, UP coal train CNRBV labors up the stiff grade at Converse Junction on BNSF’s Orin Subdivision. Operating on a longstanding trackage rights agreement, the train will diverge onto home rails in 52 miles at Shawnee Junction. Roaring EMD 16-710s fill the desolate Wyoming air as a misplaced NS SD70ACe hitches a ride back east.
This afternoon in the Powder River Basin was uncharacteristically busy given the depressing state of coal, with a seemingly endless flow of trains arriving at or waiting to depart the mines. This traffic jam would persist for several hours, as the railroads gave me a glimpse at what things may have looked like during the Basin’s prime. At this time, there was minimal car storage along the Orin line – a sight commonly found today as more coal sets become idled.
Just off the departure loop at North Rochelle Mine, this load is destined for Cedar Rapids, IA, and will be unloaded at Archer-Daniels-Midland’s massive corn processing plant, which features a 6-unit, 256-megawatt power plant. Sub-bituminous coal remains the plant’s energy source in 2025, and is critical for drying, fermentation, and distillation.
Rocket Thrower Statue, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York
This is where the red Converse from yesterday was hanging.
If you still can't find it, see the note.
View the detail shot on Red Converse
"Who, for three millennia,
Not able to realize
Lives in ignorance, in the shade
at the mercy of days time."
("Quem, de três milênios,
Não é capaz de se dar conta
Vive na ignorância, na sombra
à mercê dos dias, do tempo.")
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
yeah, another converse picture. i don't really like converse shots that much, but i'm not the most creative person, and i'm just trying to catch up on my 365. whatever.
I am the typical collector: I won't rest until I get what I want.
It took me a while to put this collection together, but now it is complete and I finally can move on to something else! :)
My last addition was OTS converse, the first in line.
Wish the focus was just a bit more to the left, but that's okay, because I still really love this shot. I think I have a bit of a shoe/leg/foot fetish for photos. Could be worse!
Pentax ME, 50mm 1.7 400ISO
A pair of BNSF SD70ACe's lead a loaded coal train south through Converse Junction, as the train begins its climb of Logan Hill.
Currently they're sampling my shoe, which means that if they get enough orders, then they will actually manufacture it! Isn't that fantastic. Keep your fingers crossed for me :)
More about this at my blog