I took this lovely Autum morning photograph in downtown Riverside Illinois in October of 2006.A fast BNSF Railway empty unit coal train has a green block signal, and is literally racing through town enroute to the Powder River coal basin in the state of Wyoming. Large power / Utility companies such as Detroit Edison will send an entire unit train to the coal mining operations when the need for coal to power electricity happens. The 2nd diesel locomotive is painted in one of the "Last" experimental color schemes from the previous railroad, Burlington Northern.
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