HiDef: A Meet By Sunset: A Day's End on Crawford Hill | Crawford, NE
2,808 views · Published 17 September 2013 · 7:30 · Indexed 30 October 2026
Channel: AliceInChains243 · 2013 · Autos & Vehicles
**WATCH IN HD!** 8/15/2013: This day on the Crawford Hill segment of BNSF's Butte Subdivision saw many coal trains, and many fantastic displays of railroading. Yet there was something about these last two that truly drove the realization home as to how great this hobby can be. Here at milepost 417 sees yet another meet of loads and empties taking their swing at the Crawford Hill grade. BNSF 8973 West holds back the empties, while BNSF 5770 East pulls for all it's worth to get it's loaded train up the mountain as it presses on towards the twin horseshoe curves that give way to the summit. But as the sun sets in the Northwestern Nebraska sky, this battle of man and machine against nature and gravity has only just begun. For the sounds of black diamonds struggling up the grade would continue all through the night, a perfect harmony.
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