Well here we are....At er again...Beautiful day today to RR fan the area.....Today we are going to hopfully follow 2 coal trains......First up on our list is a WC coal train with a nice lash up for power as he is getting a load of the black diamonds

With the train loaded...The train starts the big climb up out of the loading pit...As he is climbing the steep grade we then see another WC train is in the siding waiting to head down to the mine to get a load as well

As we move our gear closer to the main...We shot a shot of the waiting train in the siding

Here comes our train

As he slows down to make the switch onto the main they are lucky its an auto switch so the train does not have to come to a complete stop...Otherwise if this train did....It would have a hard time starting out again

Coming off the spur track and onto the mainline and now she will start to pick up speed

With the train on the main....She starts to pick up speed as she flies over this long span bridge

A fly by shot

Another shot of another bridge along the route

Now ducking under the ELS you can see the big paper mill that the ELS has just opened up for service

Here the train is stomping over the ELS diamond

With the train coming to a rest here at the depot...The crew will go in and hop in a crew car and head back to the other waiting train thats in the siding and get that one loaded up and take up the other way up the line

 

Back at the other train...The crew climbs on board and throttles up this train and heads for the loader

With the train under the loaded the process begins once again

As we magically compress the time the train is all loaded up now and ready to pull out...We were thinking on how they were going to do this with all the units up front and none on the other end to lead the train up the other way on the line

As we watch on what they do

They take the 3rd unit and leave that on the train and run the other 2 to the other end

With that all set and done...Air all pumped up the train gets on there way

As we see the 2 other units pushing up the hill

With the train back on the main...We can catch a quick glimpse of the huge plant in the back

With the train starting out we see him pass the spur that leads back to the mine

With a some what of a run by shot...He gets a red signal and has to stop....He calls the dispatcher to see why its red....Here there is a fault in the system so he got permission to head thru the red light

Here we catch the last unit shoving hard to get the train rolling again

As the train kept on going...We shot this last shot of him crossing this nice looking bridge