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Before the Powder River Basin coal boom (and afterwards) the Bighorn Mine 5=
 miles west of Sheridan WY shipped lots of coal even into the early 2000s. =
It was not uncommon for the thru freight 'local' to pick up 20 cars or so a=
t Sheridan. When I was working the Sheridan Yard engine in the late 1990s  =
we would go out to Bighorn Mine (Kiewit, not Kleenburn) to take out empties=
 and bring the loads back to Sheridan where they would be picked up by the =
'local'.  Some times there were enough cars to be picked up that helpers ha=
d to be added to the freight train. Bighorn Mine was still shipping coal, t=
ho in smaller lots from a truck dump, when I retired in 2009. I remember on=
e period in the late 1990s when the BNSF would not run the thru 'local' for=
 over a week. We had some 60 cars of coal that needed to go so the trainmas=
ter finally called an 'extra' using a set of helpers as power to take the c=
oal to laurel where it would then go east on the NP. When I came to Sherida=
n in 1975 we had an assigned daily Mine Run job that would take 30-50 cars =
out to the mine in the morning and bring the loads from the previous aftern=
oon back to town. After lunch the Mine Run would take another 30-50 empties=
 out to the mine and bring back any loads that were loaded between the morn=
ing trip and the afternoon. One time I brought 55 loaded 100 ton coal cars =
in from the mine with a single SD9. That was the max it could handle and yo=
u had to get a run down off the knob at the mine so the SD9 could make it o=
ver the 'hill' at MP 705.


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