Here are a few photos from my day spent at the Ponderosa Ranch along the BNSF mainline between Edgemont, SD and Alliance, NE. The owners of the ranch, Jeff and Kim Lund, moved there a couple years ago and discovered they can supplement thier income by charging railfans for access to their private property surrounding a horseshoe curve. This is a line of long, slow coal trains using manned helpers. I shot over 100 frames in my day at the ranch; here are a few selections:
For previous photos from this trip, go here (Amtrak), here (Powder River part 1), or here (Powder River part 2). The last set of photos, from the Moffat Route, should be posted later this week.
Technorati Tags: bnsf, railfan, railfanning, pictures, photos, crawford, nebraska, ponderosaranch, crawfordhill, trains, railroad