A helper set from Helena lifts the second half of a Manifest up the 2.2% compensated grade at Skyline Trestle. Depending on car placement and tonnage manifests are often split for the climb over ... (more)
A very smokey sky barely let thru enough light to shine on the Nose of BNSF8240 as it screams towards the divide with a trainload of coal for Boardman, OR.
The day draws to a close. MRL 252 gives a helping hand to a westbound Intermodal flood re-route. The location is Austin "Loops", a series of horseshoe curves designed to lift the tracks out from ... (more)
It is July of 2010 and the Mullan Tunnel project is in full swing. The drainage from the tunnel work is giving the locomotives some "highlighting".... MRL4303 is lifting 1/2 of a manifest out o... (more)