On my first trip to the Powder River Basin I was trying to shoot video and slides at the same time. I soon found that shooting good video is a full time job. However there is something unique about a good slide picture. At higher shutter speeds the picture is not affected by the wind and since there is no audio you can't tell that we are right next to the highway. I had given up trying to shoot video as the wind was blowing so hard that it was hard to hold the video camera steady even though it was on a tripod. I decided to concentrate on taking some good slides and this sequence is the result. This was the second empty train to come out of South Morrill in the span of about a half hour.

PRB Coal

Coal train NWNAX on bridge