Westbound, just over the summit of Marias Pass, a familiar leaser leads a train along the south edge of Glacier National Park.
After running on NS from Mobile, this northbound returns to home rails at Kimbrough, which is identified by a sign visible from space.
The daily Mobile to Amory freight changes crews in tiny, isolated Magnolia, Alabama. Alabama & Gulf Coast operates this line these days.
After swallowing the SL-SF, BN - and later BNSF - tried mightily to figure the best way to serve Mobile. After Frisco predecessor Alabama, Tennessee & Northern was abandoned, Mobile traffic was r... (more)
Everett, WA to Pasco, WA train 696 crosses under a wooden overpass on it's trek Southward.
