Passing Thru Plains
This 28-300mm lense really let's you capture some very different scenes of the same train without moving an inch. Having shared the long telephoto versions already here is the wide version that captures the full scene with your eyes now drawn to the old wooden elevator as a prop instead of the signals.
This is the westbound Montana Rail Link 'night gas' train behind SD70ACes 4406 and 4408 (both built new for the road in Apr. 2014) leading a trainload of refined petroleum products from Missoula to Thompson Falls as they pass the west end of the 11,360 ft siding and cross Central Ave. at MP 6.4 on the 4th Sub Mainline.
These railfan favorite gas trains are the only trains on this end of the railroad anymore that are guaranteed to run with blue power. Strictly an intra-MRL operation, these trains came into being in 1995 when a gap was created in the 40 yr old and 531 mile long Yellowstone Pipeline when the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe chose not to renew the pipeline company's lease of 21 miles of right of way across their Flathead Indian Reservation. To learn about how and why this came about this article may be of interest: www.bigskywords.com/montana-blog/the-yellowstone-pipeline...
Plains, Montana
Sunday September 4, 2022
Passing Thru Plains
This 28-300mm lense really let's you capture some very different scenes of the same train without moving an inch. Having shared the long telephoto versions already here is the wide version that captures the full scene with your eyes now drawn to the old wooden elevator as a prop instead of the signals.
This is the westbound Montana Rail Link 'night gas' train behind SD70ACes 4406 and 4408 (both built new for the road in Apr. 2014) leading a trainload of refined petroleum products from Missoula to Thompson Falls as they pass the west end of the 11,360 ft siding and cross Central Ave. at MP 6.4 on the 4th Sub Mainline.
These railfan favorite gas trains are the only trains on this end of the railroad anymore that are guaranteed to run with blue power. Strictly an intra-MRL operation, these trains came into being in 1995 when a gap was created in the 40 yr old and 531 mile long Yellowstone Pipeline when the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe chose not to renew the pipeline company's lease of 21 miles of right of way across their Flathead Indian Reservation. To learn about how and why this came about this article may be of interest: www.bigskywords.com/montana-blog/the-yellowstone-pipeline...
Plains, Montana
Sunday September 4, 2022