Nostalgia & History > BN on Crawford hill in Nebraska.

In august 1984 a five unit set of Burlington Northern power is leading a northbound empty coal train down Crawford hill in Northwestern Nebraska.  At that time period it was common practice to assemble five unit sets of C30-7, U30C and SD40-2 locomotives to run the empty coal trains to the Wyoming coal mines and return to Alliance, Nebraska with the loaded trains.

Thanks for viewing.

Ron Hirsch
Springfield, Mo.

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Thanks for posting, Ron.  SOP at the time was five units west of Alliance and three east of Alliance.  Power was often totally changed in Alliance.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/05/25 08:22 by ntharalson.

hank Wrote:
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> In august 1984 a five unit set of Burlington
> Northern power is leading a northbound empty coal
> train down Crawford hill in Northwestern
> Nebraska.  At that time period it was common
> practice to assemble five unit sets of C30-7, U30C
> and SD40-2 locomotives to run the empty coal
> trains to the Wyoming coal mines and return to
> Alliance, Nebraska with the loaded trains.
>
> Thanks for viewing.
>
> Ron Hirsch
> Springfield, Mo.

Nice short video. Unfortunately that curve is not Breezy Point. The curve in the video had a couple of different names including "Crawford Curve".

Breezy Point is the next curve up the hill.


Keith_Kevet

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