AMTRAK/ MILW reroute Loweth, MT
Topping the first of three mountain ranges on the Rocky Mountain Division. This is a 1% climb up and down with 1.4% at what's called a saddle at Loweth between the Castle and Crazy Mountain Ranges to Ringling and into the Big Belt Mountains.
A 1956 line change cut the 2.05% operational headache to a manageable climb and made Substation #2 the only place where the mainline ran behind the structure.
6-22-74
AMTRAK/ MILW reroute Loweth, MT
Topping the first of three mountain ranges on the Rocky Mountain Division. This is a 1% climb up and down with 1.4% at what's called a saddle at Loweth between the Castle and Crazy Mountain Ranges to Ringling and into the Big Belt Mountains.
A 1956 line change cut the 2.05% operational headache to a manageable climb and made Substation #2 the only place where the mainline ran behind the structure.
6-22-74