BN 3041 West train No.19, Jones Jct, MT; Aug 30, 1988_
Former Frisco GP40-2 no.3041 leads train No.19 off the Yellowstone Division and onto what was then becoming the east end of the Montana Rail Link. I was just beginning my five year tenure dispatching for the BN. I got hired at Billings, Montana, because I was a replacement for one of the BN guys that was defecting to the MRL's then being built DS office in Missoula. Unfortunately a month before this photo lighting struck a tree in the Yellowstone National Park causing the largest ever forest fire in this region. The haze in this picture is a result. Unfortunately the haze and smoke is evident in many of my Montana photos I took during the year that I lived there.
The Chief Dispatcher that hired me told me too not "get to comfortable" in Billings as the office was moving to Denver in a year.."no problem I don't mind going to Denver" I said...a year later in true rayroad fashion I was moving alright...to MINNEAPOLIS!
BN 3041 West train No.19, Jones Jct, MT; Aug 30, 1988_
Former Frisco GP40-2 no.3041 leads train No.19 off the Yellowstone Division and onto what was then becoming the east end of the Montana Rail Link. I was just beginning my five year tenure dispatching for the BN. I got hired at Billings, Montana, because I was a replacement for one of the BN guys that was defecting to the MRL's then being built DS office in Missoula. Unfortunately a month before this photo lighting struck a tree in the Yellowstone National Park causing the largest ever forest fire in this region. The haze in this picture is a result. Unfortunately the haze and smoke is evident in many of my Montana photos I took during the year that I lived there.
The Chief Dispatcher that hired me told me too not "get to comfortable" in Billings as the office was moving to Denver in a year.."no problem I don't mind going to Denver" I said...a year later in true rayroad fashion I was moving alright...to MINNEAPOLIS!