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The GNRHS's beautifully restored and painted Great Northern SD45 #400 'Hustle Muscle' is operating at the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway in Osceola WI
Wuffy has turned out to be a pretty good friend. But he's one of those guys that's always talking about his workouts. He has an Austrian accent (a la Arnold Schwarzenegger) and is always saying things like, "Look at my magnificent abs! And my pecs are huge!". He's always doing crunches and bench pressing other toys. But it is kind of nice having the muscle around to help Jasper protect the house
With this shot I told the tale of our fabulous good fortune running into a perfectly timed Laurel to Missoula manifest just as we pulled up into Helena: flic.kr/p/2nLG64k
Here's another shot as the pair of SD70ACEs march up through Tobin in this long telephoto view looking downgrade from the Birdseye Rd. crossing near MP 6.2 on Montana Rail Link’s 3rd Subdivision. The state capital of Helena only a half dozen miles east is obscured in a haze of wildfire smoke on this warm late summer day. The duo are assisted by a manned swing helper set of four more ACEs working to boost them up the 2.2% grade to the 5566 ft. top of the Continental Divide about fourteen to the miles west on the original 1883 Northern Pacific mainline, the nation's second transcontinental railroad.
Countless articles have been written about the MRL over the past 35 years of its existence and if you care to learn more download this great set courtesy of Trains Magazine:
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Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Tueaday September 6, 2022
Autumn, also known as Fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed.
Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of North America, Eastern Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), Europe, southeast, south and part of the midwest of Brazil, the forest of Patagonia, eastern Australia and New Zealand's South Island.
Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage, and this attracts major tourism (worth billions of US dollars) for the regions.
Great Northern SD45 #400, "Hustle Muscle" leads the North Shore Scenic Railroad's weekly "Two Harbors Turn".
This particular excursion (as of 2025) operates once a week on Thursdays, while the "Duluth Zephyr" and "Pizza Express" run Fridays-Sundays.
GN 400 is paired with former Northern Pacific 245, which was also fired up and humming along on this diesel double-header. Naturally, a short chase was in order.
Seeing GN 400 run is like seeing an old friend, as it was 10 years ago it operated in Osceola, WI while on lease to MTM, where I volunteered at the time. The locomotive had an eventful decade since, getting a new 20-645 engine and being re-homed to Duluth. It doesn't operated much, but has seen regular service on most of LSRM's trains in June and now July.
Here the train departs the museum as it traditionally does by shoving out of the depot and onto the NSSR mainline.
Cast in bronze on a copper dish plated with silver - yet another example of Peter's creativity! Not bad for a scientist!!
This guy paddled along in our wake for so long! We had a motor, he just his muscles & skill ... just staying upright looked like it would be an effort for me!
GN 400, BN 6234 and 325 have just pulled up to Osceola Wi and are in the cab of the engine about to jump in the truck and head for home. In reality, the Hustle Muscle and two BN units are waiting for a dead head back to the twin cities for the winter season to wait for warmer weather.
One more from the Armed Forces Weekend on Plymouth Hoe, this is Rich Goodwin flying the Pitts S2S Muscle Biplane, amazing to watch and see the control he has of this aircraft! :)
G-EWIZ is powered by six cylinder, 8.5 litre engine, producing over 300HP. It has a flying weight of 700 Kg, a top speed of over 200 mph and capable of pulling plus 6 g and minus 5g.
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