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We stayed the night in Whitehall Montana with sights on chasing the Bozeman local the next day, on our way over to Bozeman we discovered the ML picking up a loaded BNSF ballast train in Logan. We chased them into Bozeman where they made a crew change, in the meantime the bozeman local left light power so we stuck with the ML for the morning. With a new crew on board the ML heads east with 5 on the head end and mid train helpers as the climb up Bozeman pass!
MRL’s Essential Workers engine leads the eastbound Missoula-Laurel by the often photographed barn at Jens, MT, on the 3rd Sub.
With both the special wraps in the spot you don’t want them to be, the Eastbound MISLAU freight, with a ballast train tacked onto the head end, drops downgrade through the sweeping curve at Austin, MT.
I haven't posted in a bit as I have been traveling. It wasn't really a train trip per se but I was able to work in a few shots on various mornings in addition to a couple of full days along the way. One such day was March 13 when I spent the day between Livingston & Laurel, MT. I headed west at daybreak from Laurel with the hopes I might see these two units which had been running on the ML/LM trains. I had checked Laurel in the morning and didn't see the pair anywhere so I was hopeful I would catch them on the road somewhere. The ML had been on duty at 2130 the night before in Helena so I expected to see them not too far out of Laurel. However they needed to be re-crewed in Livingston not sure what happened, perhaps it was the locomotive crane on the rear of this short 14 car train, but grateful nonetheless. I caught them coming out of Livingston and followed to Laurel. Seen here between Quebec and Reed Point.
Montana Rail Link's system wide manifest train from Missoula to Laurel (ML) summits Bozeman Pass at West-End with help from a Livingston-based helper set.
On the eastern end of the Montana Rail Link, MRL's 2nd Sub races across broad valleys along the Yellowstone River. Here, just east of Greycliff, things are fairly flat as the ML races across open prairies on its way to Laurel.
MRL ML (Missoula to Laurel, MT)
MRL SD70ACe #4311
MRL SD70ACe #4404
Greycliff, MT
August 29th, 2021
"If you can hold the stars in place
You can hold my heart the same
Whenever I fall away
Whenever I start to break
So here I am, lifting up my heart
To the one who holds the stars"
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