Powder River Basin Coal
Black Thunder West

35,000 ton storage, parking for 5 trains, 2 mile conveyor from main operations, crosses Highlight road, a young man in a pickup stops to see that we are ok, he’s on his way to the silo to load a waiting train as soon as the conveyor loads enough coal into the silo, we wait and watch the operation begin, the train pulling out to the north is dwarfed by the structure