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5/16/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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MRL 4312
Title:  MRL 4312
Description:  The crew change point for the MRL/BNSF. Helpers are serviced and fueled in Helena and are put on to west bounds here. West bound helpers after helping trains over Mullan Pass may wait for an eastbound to help them over the pass.
Photo Date:  10/9/2016  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 12:58:02 PM
Location:  Helena, MT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4312(SD70ACe)
Views:  129   Comments: 1
MRL 4310
Title:  MRL 4310
Description:  A set of helpers shoves on the rear of this westbound autorack train just west of Helena as the train heads to Mullan Pass. Sometimes helpers are placed mid train.
Photo Date:  10/6/2016  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 1:11:47 PM
Location:  Helena, MT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4313(SD70ACe)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
MRL 4315
Title:  MRL 4315
Description:  The Local with MRL 405 and 404 waits in the spur while a set of helpers from a westbound train heads east with extra cars from the helper that will head to Livingston, east of Bozeman Pass.
Photo Date:  10/13/2016  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 1:12:20 PM
Location:  Belgrade, MT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4315(SD70ACe)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
MRL 4315
Title:  MRL 4315
Description:  Eastbound MRL helpers with 4315 in the lead meet a waiting MRL freight train in Belgrade. Our last day of the trip was mainly MRL trains which is what I came for in the first place.
Photo Date:  10/13/2016  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 1:13:26 PM
Location:  Belgrade, MT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4315(SD70ACe)
Views:  80   Comments: 1
MRL 4405
Title:  MRL 4405
Description:  Reaching the summit of Bozeman Pass at Muir, the helpers on the rear of this westbound BNSF grain train will return to Livingston on the eastern side of the pass. Sometimes if there is an eastbound coming the helpers will stay on the westbound into Bozeman on the other side of the pass to help the eastbound over.
Photo Date:  10/11/2016  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 1:23:48 PM
Location:  Bozeman Pass, MT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4405(SD70ACe)
Views:  858   Comments: 5
MRL 4405
Title:  MRL 4405
Description:  East of the pass, the MRL helpers are shoving this loaded coal train that departed from Livingston.
Photo Date:  10/12/2016  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 1:24:11 PM
Location:  Bozeman Pass, MT
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4405(SD70ACe)
Views:  236   Comments: 2


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