Producer: Pentrex
Locations: Wyoming, Nebraska
Timeframe: 1990s
Length: 57 minutes
Trains that haul Powder River Coal are the main act here. Burlington Northern has much business. Runs over half the time.
Pure sets of Cascade Green and white are C still found. Ugly colors on the newer 3rd generation power.
Union Pacific. Chicago and North Western have the rest of the time. Besides Coal, Manifest and Intermodal traffic is found here.
A single DVD. No chapter menu. A few maps. Preview section is included.
Now, the Powder River Unit Coal trains. They can get monotonous on other shows. We shall see how Pentrex fares…
Burlington Northern is first up. Newcastle, Wyoming to Alliance, Nebraska. Edgemont, Provo, and Crawford are visited.
Loads meet a Westbound running empties. SD70MAC power.
Bentonite clay us another commodity. 7270 with a long lash-up at Crawford. The traditional BN paint looks better vs. that ugly new scheme. C30-7, SD40-2 are amoung the older locomotives on this route.
A BN C30-7 leads on the summit, at Belmont, Nebraska.
Union Pacific is also introduced with a display map. Lusk, WY. to South Morrill and Bridgeport, Nebraska. Hence, UP coal moves are shown.
Union Pacific meet at Bridgeport. Trains are backed up here.
CNW 8040 in the Weeds at South Mitchell.
8669 is a C44-9W pulling a Unit Coal. Location is South Morrill Note the open nose doors on these General Electric C44-9W engines.
A shorter chapter that is on Cheyenne, Wyoming area. The usual yard lead there. Union Pacific with a variety of freights.
UP 3139 with an SP unit departing from Cheyenne. Mixed freight and intermodal moves from this yard.
Trains on the High Plains
All the Powder River Coal you need, in under an hour. Face it, Unit Coal can get boring fast. Repetitive moves don’t maintain interest. However, this release does offer a variety of locomotives and trains. Moving the camera locations also works well.
Recommended for those who don’t require a long show to view mainly Hoppers.
Rating: 5 Stars
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