Funny thing is, up in post 110 you can see the MOW crew working over the 2 track. It took a couple of days but they did work it! Then just a week later the rail rolled over on that same track and dropped those 5 cars over! Temperature extremes may have caused it. We had had a couple of HOT days and cool nites. Anyway, put up a couple neat videos on the you tube channel. The Desert Storm caboose on the black bridge over the Yellowstone and a trio of lost CSX units. Also saw this UP unit on a M train eastbound,
Here we have the two most damaged cars from that rollover. They are sitting alongside the depot loading dock getting their grain unloaded over to a couple of good cars on the next track over.
Caught this empty coal train westbound. Has an interesting mix of cars from BN, TILX and others....found tit at the Marsh road crossing south of Glendive.
Had to go to Billings on Friday, which is always a torturous thing, but we left early enough I could take time to get some pics and vids of trains. There was a train seperated on the siding at Pompeys Pillar, which made me double back to see why! Oh, they just had to split it for a private access crossing. Dang, was hoping to find something broken....but it must be easier to do this now with DP units on the rear that keep the air pressure pumped up in the trainline. These pics are from rear to front. I did get one video of a small hopper train at Hathaway, MT, which is now a ghost town and sidings. BNSF uses the extra sidings mostly as a layover spot for MOW equipment. I thought that the falling down trailer made an interesting foreground...
Was getting set to move a trailer around yesterday morning, and got manuevered into the front to hitch up to it, and I hear a train from a ways off. Quick break time, cross the street and get this video! Oh, and moving that trailer was a rough go! There was a lot of mud and sliding around, but we got it removed aand put at the back of the lot!
As muddy as it was, it went pretty well, because I had some good help there. And the hardest part of the day was having to just watch more trains go by, and just watch. The truck is a 73 C70. It was longer in the past, but it's frame got bent. It was then re-welded and set up to be a Toter truck. It does ok, but is no speedy thing. These two were here the other day and being sunny and having an interesting foreground made me stop and click. On the work note, have been doing repairs to this old church. It has been converted into a residence yet needs more work. Fun!
Yup. We had snow two mornings. Ugh. Not unusual to see a flurry early October, but measurable inches is not normal.
Had a trip to Miles City and caught decided to get a neat picture of the bridge over the Powder River with storm clouds blowing in behind it, and a Manifest train surprised me with a blow through! Thank the Good Lord for happy accidents like that! The wind was just a howling, but the train is still loud. My wife was waving at the crew, so they gave the horn to little blasts you can hear early in the video.
Just a sea of orange and green/black so far this week. Did get some snow on units inbound from western MT today tho!
I managed to get a few videos uploaded today. A snowy bit of power on eastbound coal trains, a switcher moving at the roundhouse and that coal train I had seen at Tusler last Sunday, it showed up in Glendive as aload on Tues!
