A westbound Montana Rail Link ballast train departs the yard at Logan, Montana, on October 3, 2022, while MRL’s 844 Logan local waits for the train to clear in the background before it can continue switching its train together. Some of the usual clutter of a yard temporarily includes three big spools of leftover cable used in the ongoing resignalling process the railroad is working on. The ballast train, powered by a pair of EMD SD70ACes, is entering MRL’s 5th Subdivision to Whitehall, where the train will continue up the Spire Rock Industrial Track to the loader located on the former Butte main line at Spire Rock.
