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Joseph Conrad said that if you wanted to know the age of the earth , look upon the sea in a storm ; if you want to know the age of the Powder River country , just be on the wrong side of a coal train . A guy who worked for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe once told me that the trains in northern Wyoming are about a hundred and forty cars and a mile and a half long , but it sure seems longer than that when you’re waiting on one . === The major cities of the Wyoming portion of the basin are Gillette and Sheridan ; in Montana , Miles City . The rest of the twenty - four thousand square miles is what they call sparsely populated and I call Durant and home . === The ass end of the train went by , another disappointment in that it was not a caboose but rather a set of locomotives helping to push from the rear , and I got that familiar feeling I always did whenever a train passed ; that I should be on it , but it was going the wrong way .