Montana Rail Link (MRL) 321 - Rebuilt EMD SD45-2
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A 5-pack of SD45s is good, anywhere in the train!!
Combined Helper units drift back to Helena.
Combined Helper units drift back to Helena.
Loaded grain train on MRL erupts from Mullan Tunnel. Most of this initial exhaust was generated by the MRL helper fourth out. There are also Aces cut in mid & rear train.
Loaded grain train on MRL erupts from Mullan Tunnel. Most of this initial exhaust was generated by the MRL helper fourth out. There are also Aces cut in mid & rear train.
They got here somewhere around 1300hrs & it is now 1800hrs....they are STILL not ready to go, but need headroom out of the yard to perform another switching move. The straight set out/pick up that normally takes 30 minutes or less was not to be had today. BNSF evidently left them more work than they could have ever hoped for in the yard, I am pretty sure they moved each & every car around a dozen times.
ML picking up helpers set out in Garrison.
ML picking up helpers set out in Garrison.
ML is easing down from the yard with a cut of cars, for brake testing purposes, to pick up a set of helpers.
While it's not entirely evident with the haze, there is nothing but MRL & BN power seen here. First, C-SCMCEC is headed east passing a set of engines set out on the wye while in the background, ML has tied down their train (with MRL SD70Ace) and cranked up a BN Geep sitting in the yard, which they were forced to use to perform unadvertised & unannounced switching that the BNSF crew left undone for ML's pickup.
Sitting on the east leg of the wye.
840 is starting down the 5th Sub at Logan with the 2nd sub mainline in the background.
Notching out of Townsend.
Heading into the siding at Townsend to work local industry.
Headed east out of Townsend.
