Yesterday morning I headed out and caught this guy northbound on the Sidney branch. That line was built jointly by the NP and GN, for a reason that I don't remember, and in a rare moment of cooperation.
An H train with a 30 mph restriction. Radio chatter at the beginning, and the 60 is going in and out of high idle.
Yup. The locals out and back from Glendive are the Miles City turn, Sidney turn, Beach,ND turn and Dickinson, ND turn. There is also a fair amount of Glendive work, for the elevators, one 'super' and one old, the gravel pit, and a trio of oilfield support industries. So these units get a lot of use and miles. There used to be a 'turn' for Hettinger, SD also, but I think that one has been reassigned to Aberdeen, SD.
Here's the two "pumpkin 40's" working the east end, Ans a lost Belle, Finishing the day with an over-powered local, working over to the oilfield support outfits, Happy Thanksgiving!! Remember to be thankful every dayto the One who made you and to all those people around you today!! And for ytains!!
Had 2 'happy accidents' today! The first was at Dickinson where I caught a couple of older EMD's switching, And then on the way home this coal train came roaring through Sentinel Butte, ND. It had started blowing and it was mighty nippy!
Had some random lost power as DPU's on coal empties yesterday, one of NS's DC-AC units, And a lost MexiBelle.
Saw this guy eastbound on a coal load Sun a.m. early. This shot is from the 13th when it was on the empty... And from the next evening,
Wow, 4 locos attached! Are these all images from the US? Forgive my ignorance, but for passenger rail providers, is Amtrak the only rail provider in US [ and is all of them privatized ]? I know that US had a hugely dense network of rails in the 20th century but it was dismantled slowly over the decades and passenger rail declined in favor of highways and cars.
