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We stumbled upon the ML grinding up Mullan outside of Elliston on our way to Helena, beautiful sun and fall colors on the pass added to the scene!
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.
"The line_up is a paperwork series I developed since 2010. The“liners” are made out of paper (Din A3),
oil paint and graphite, the theme is the hermetical laws of polarity and movement. There is no ending and no beginning in any direction, just an endless movement. You have the possibility to arrange the papers like you want and that makes it an endless playground for my photo-work and the eyes of the viewers."
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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
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
Exiting the tunnel at Muir the ML will cruise down Bozeman Pass to Livingston where we will give up the chase that started in Helena. Once we got to West End the weather had changed so we moved back west to sunnier skies.
Pink Floyd Tribute Concert by ML @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chi/86/176/23
Yes there is a short video too at : www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqdVO8M1h20
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.