As a journalist who follows the coal industry I was delighted to discover a Twitter account by a locomotive engineer on the Powder River Basin route. Alan Nash, or @VernChronicles, shares dozens of photos each month depicting the landscape, wildlife and industry along the 150 miles of his beloved #WyoBraska route.

I drove to Bill, Wyoming one blustery February day to visit with Alan in person, and write this profile: “View from the Rails: Train engineer chronicles 25 years of PRB coal“