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No, UP didn't operate trains into the basin before the merger. UP would deliver the trains to C&NW at South Morril, NE where the UP crew would step off, a C&NW crew would climb on and the train would normally leave very quickly (They still do, just not quite as fast). The South Morril based C&NW crew would take the train up the new line to the Cowboy line and onto the Joint Line up to Bill. At Bill a new crew would climb on and take the train to a mine and back to Bill where another South Morril based crew would return the train to the UP. The expected elapsed time from UP-back to-UP was 20-22 hours. Also, C&NW's subsidiary in the Basin was actually called Western Rail Properties Inc. P.S.-- I should give credit to Fred Frailey for much of this info and for getting me very interested in the PRB. TRAINS, November 1989, pages 40-63. Fred! Write another article on the PRB! Please!
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