Crawford Hill

Crawford Hill

Crawford Hill in NW Nebraska is a formidable obstacle to unit coal trains traversing the Butte subdivision between mile posts 425 and 409 on Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Powder River division enroute to Alliance, NE and points east. Head-end and helper locomotives team up to provide from 20,000 to over 30,000 hp to defeat gravity and friction while moving approximately 30 16,000-ton trains over the hill every day. This double-tracked portion of the Butte features back-to-back horseshoe curves and deep cuts and fills with a ruling grade of over 1.7%. My sincere thanks to Paul (Fishlipsatwork) for providing the DEM-based raw map on which this routewas created.

Author: Bruce Kennewell

Crawford Hill
• config.txt 22.47KB
• crawford hill.bmk 330 bytes
• crawford hill.gnd 15.09MB
• crawford hill.obs 101.26KB
• crawford hill.trk 155.96KB