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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.
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.
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
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
An adult male Milos Wall Lizard (Podarcis milensis) from Plaka in spring on Milos Island, Greece. An IUCN Redlisted species occurring on a few Aegean Islands.
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV coupled to a vintage C/Y mount Yashica ML 55/2.8 macro lens with a third party adapter. Shot hand-held @ f.16, ISO:125, 1/125th, with fully manual focus/settings and a diffused, twin flash kit.