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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!
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.
Emerging from the tunnel under Medicine Tree Hill, MRL's ML manifest crosses the Clark Fork River and enters the siding at Nimrod on MRL's 3rd Sub.
Just to the left of the lead locomotive, behind the signal mast, is a number of bridge girders. These are from the former Milwaukee Road bridge here that was dismantled in the last several years. The MILW Pacific Extension once paralleled the former Northern Pacific from Garrison through Nimrod to Missoula.
MRL ML (Missoula to Laurel, MT)
MRL SD70ACe #4405
MRL SD70ACe #4404
Nimrod, MT
May 5th, 2022
FEC 5AM Medley Job switches F Garcia Wholesale and Export at ML 3.1 on the Medley Lead. A number of rail-friendly warehouses exist here but many either sit vacant or don't receive shipments - F Garcia is one of a few exceptions that regularly receives foodstuff by rail and forwards it for delivery or export.
Credit to Zach for picking this spot out. We saw this guy heading out of the sunset and into darkness the evening prior and assumed it was long gone, but upon arrival in Logan in the morning found them about to swap crews for a nicely lit run up the pass!
Looks like the 4305 has picked up a bit of road grime from the MRL's tunnels as it leads the ML road freight into Logan.
Lots of random shots...
Yashica FX3 Super 2000 | Yashica ML 50mm F1.7
Fuji Superia 100 (Expired 2005) | Home developed in Bellini
Scanned with EPSON V600