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  1. BNSF coal gondola

    BNSF coal gondola

    A BNSF coal gondola sports BNSF's latest logo at Mullan Pass.
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    • Category: Freight Cars
  2. Smoke and Heat

    Smoke and Heat

    The evening MRL gas local from Missoula to Pipeline, on Saturday 7/26, put on quite a show along the Clark Fork River southeast of St. Regis. The normal power was substituted by GP-9 #116, GP-35 #403, GP-9s #127 and #113 (ex MSTL, DRGW, GN and NP).
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    • Category: Western United States
  3. BNSF grain at Austin

    BNSF grain at Austin

    A BNSF grain train powered by 3 Dash 9's & an SD70ACe barels down the 2.2% grade towards Helena
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    • Category: Western United States
  4. MRL #4304

    MRL #4304

    MRL SD70ACe #4304 passes through a grade crossing on its way back to Helena on a BNSF grain train.
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  5. Soo Line Survivor

    Soo Line Survivor

    An old auto rack car still in its Soo Line livery.
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    • Category: Freight Cars
  6. Railroad Art

    Railroad Art

    One of the rail cars that looks like it has been decorated by an artist, not a graffitist.
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    • Category: Freight Cars
  7. Good ol' Casacade Green

    Good ol' Casacade Green

    An ex.BN whiteface SD60M on a BNSF manifest at Helena, Mt
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  8. Framed!

    Framed!

    The cab & air conditioner on BNSF Dash 9 #4595 is framed by a walk-through passage at the Helena depot
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  9. MRL Hi-Rail at Helena

    MRL Hi-Rail at Helena

    A MRL Hi-Rail pickup at the Helena Depot
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    • Category: Maintenance of Way and Non-Revenue Cars
  10. BNSF manifest at Helena

    BNSF manifest at Helena

    A west-bound BNSF manifest waits at the Helena depot for a set of helpers after changing crew. I was able to catch a helper set heading back towards Helena up at Blossberg later that day: http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/55670/cat/500/ppuser/4714...
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    • Category: Western United States
  11. Coal empties at Blossberg(2)

    Coal empties at Blossberg(2)

    A long train of coal empties, most owned by PGEX, crosses the continental divide at Blossberg
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Rolling Stock
  12. Coal empties at Blossberg(1)

    Coal empties at Blossberg(1)

    A long train of coal empties, most owned by PGEX, crosses the continental divide at Blossberg
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Rolling Stock
  13. Paradise Local

    Paradise Local

    Montana Rail Link's Paradise Local pulls into Thompson Falls to switch a lumber customer powered by two aging GP9's.
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    • Category: Western United States
  14. Blossberg portal

    Blossberg portal

    The track can be seen curving before entering the 3,896.5' tunnel.
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    • Category: Tunnels
  15. Its all down hill from here

    Its all down hill from here

    The 3-unit helper set starts to head down the 1%grade towards Mullan Tunnel, which will steepen to 2.2% at the east end of the tunnel & continue down to Helena
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  16. Around the curve

    Around the curve

    The 3-unit helper set moves around a curve towards Mullan tunnel
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  17. Cresting the summit at Blossberg

    Cresting the summit at Blossberg

    An east-bound 3-unit helper set of MRL SD45's crests the continental divide at Blossberg.
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  18. West Portal

    West Portal

    A view of the soot-blackened Mullan Pass tunnel's west portal at Blossberg. I waited and hoped a west-bound would come so I could witness the semi-famous "black fog of Blossberg" as it is called, but a non-stop parade of EB trains & only 1 day to do the whole Mullan Pass area kept...
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  19. Montana Rail Link

    Montana Rail Link

    Still waiting for something to come my way at Blossberg, I decide to take a picture of MRL's logo on one of their signal boxes at Blossberg
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  20. Mullan Grain

    Mullan Grain

    An east-bound BNSF grain train roars toward Helena, Mt as it decends the 2.2% grade on the east side of Mullan Pass near Austin.
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    • Category: Western United States




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