Frannie Yard
Two miles below the Montana border, the tiny town of Frannie, WY hosts a small railyard. At the very northern edge of the Bighorn Basin, Frannie is where the Burlington Railroad's line to Cody breaks off from the mainline (built a few years after the line to Cody) to Greybull and Casper, WY.
In April 2020, the largest customer on the branch to Cody closed down, and the regular job based out of Cody was abolished. The remaining, much smaller, customers of the Cody branch were added to the workload of a Greybull based local. However, in late April of 2021 the Cody-based R-PWR8162 was reinstated as traffic on the branch is regular enough to warrant it (plus I'm sure having to recrew the train from Greybull every night got old real fast).
Here the Cody Local is shoving a cut of cars from Montana Limestone into a clear track for pickup by a road train.
Frannie, WY
May 27th, 2021
Frannie Yard
Two miles below the Montana border, the tiny town of Frannie, WY hosts a small railyard. At the very northern edge of the Bighorn Basin, Frannie is where the Burlington Railroad's line to Cody breaks off from the mainline (built a few years after the line to Cody) to Greybull and Casper, WY.
In April 2020, the largest customer on the branch to Cody closed down, and the regular job based out of Cody was abolished. The remaining, much smaller, customers of the Cody branch were added to the workload of a Greybull based local. However, in late April of 2021 the Cody-based R-PWR8162 was reinstated as traffic on the branch is regular enough to warrant it (plus I'm sure having to recrew the train from Greybull every night got old real fast).
Here the Cody Local is shoving a cut of cars from Montana Limestone into a clear track for pickup by a road train.
Frannie, WY
May 27th, 2021