Western Railroad Discussion > Bad Water Railway AKA Bighorn Divide & Wyoming

Bonneville Transloaders, Inc, owns the Bad Water Railway which started out as the Bad Water Line, based in Riverton, WY. It was established in 1995 after BTI bought the rail line abandoned by the Chicago & North Western RR. In May 2002 it was bought by Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad Inc. (BDW), a noncarrier.

The line runs from Shoshoni to Bonneville, BNSF Junction mile post 304.0, on the Casper line. It was established in 1995 after BTI bought the rail line abandoned by the Chicago & North Western RR. Badwater Creek runs through Bonneville.

The main operations include loading molten sulfur into tank cars and soda ash trucked in from the Green River area. Soda ash is still loaded at Bonneville in 2004.

The Bad Water Railway built a new railroad line from Lysite to Lost Cabin, WY, to serve a gas-processing plant in 2001. BNSF granted them trackage rights from Bonneville to Lysite.


Photo caption;

Daren Genau came across one of two SW-1500's used on the Bighorn Divide & Wyoming RR at Shoshoni, WY, on Oct. 13, 2004. BDW SW-1500 1001 was Southern Railway 2320, ex-Norfolk Southern 2320.

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Bonneville Transloaders, Inc, uses SW-1500 BTI1 at Bonneville, WY, soda ash transload railhead. Unit is ex-Southern Pacific 2636 built May 1972. Photo by Daren G.

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BDW GP38-2 2001 has seen many owners. It was delivered to Illinois Terminal (ITC) numbered 2002, then Norfolk & Western 4161, NS 4161:2, Georgetown RR (Texas) 4161, OmniTrax (OLMX) 4161, Central Kansas Railway (CKRY) 382, OLMX 382 (frame number 766065-2). The Bighorn Divide & Wyoming 2001 was pulling empty molten sulfur tank cars from BNSF's Casper Sub on the Lysite Branch to Lost Cabin Gas Plant, Oct. 13, 2004. Photo by Daren Genau.

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Re photo 2 - I sure hope that's soda ash all over the bonnet - otherwise you must have some BIG birds in that part of the world !! <VBG>
Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

Wow, I didn't that one was there, thanks!