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    What Exactly is a Pumpkin? - Clarification Please

    BNSF Premium Heritage is another name I have come across being used for Heritage 2 livery. This would appear to be used on the wide cab locomotives. So is anything in Heritage 2 livery a Pumpkin including SD70MACs and SD70ACes unless it is greatly faded when it apparently becomes a...
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    What Exactly is a Pumpkin? - Clarification Please

    I have heard reference to a GE Dash 9 in BNSF Heritage 2 / Premium Heritage livery being a 'Pumpkin', but what does this nickname cover? Is it just Dash 9s in BNSF Heritage 2 or is it all BNSF locos in Heritage 2, BNSF GE locos in Heritage 2 or some other permutation? What is required to...
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    Montana Rail Link Manifest Trains

    Thanks for the reply. This is useful info. I presume the locals that you mention are the Paradise Local and the Bitterroot Valley. I have noted the Gas Local picking up cars at Paradise and presumably it will set out cars there as well.
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    Montana Rail Link Manifest Trains

    Can anyone help me out with the following question? Montana Rail Link operate the Laurel - Missoula manifest train (LM / M-LAUMIS and associated return) but I seem to recall there was another similar turn between Missoula and Sandpoint (MS) (or was it Spokane?) and return (SM) or am I mistaken...




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