Guess what? I forgot about this thread.... But I still have pics to share, and here they come! We move west from Cut Bank,a nd see nothign for MILES and MILES, till we catch up with a WB at Browning. Thanks to road construction in Browning, we are stuck in traffic for over half an hour, and then long slow-orders untill we nearly reach Grizzley. We cruise thru East Glacier, and head west to Bison, where we scoop a WB cooling its wheels in the siding. The zoomed-in view: The wide, Big Sky view (razzenfrazzen high sun!): After bagging the above shots, we head to Bison West, park, and hightail it on foot, up the hill to grab the WB as it climbs out of Bison siding!
Here's that same train, passing an EB that we had just missed as we drove in: Cool Warbonnets! The stack talk was deafening! Mikel, doing his thing:
Let's take a closer look at those 'Bonnets, shall we? And then we head to Summit, where an empty grainer is waiting for the stacker we shot at Bison, bagging the classic signal bridge shot: The light was terrible EB, but WBs were still somewhat lit well:
We chase the WB as it proceeds toward Whitefish's crew change point, and catch it at Shed 4: and Shed 5: With only 4 engine-lengths between the sheds, and copious amounts of brush obscuring the shot, this was a hard shot to time correctly! We head further downgrade, at Goat Lick to bag the WB, but catch an EB charging upgrade instead. Check out the Mullan Pass re-routed coal empty, with SD70MACs leading! A rarity on Marias! I did the best I could to get all 4 units on the trestle, but too much brush and trees:
No sooner did we head to Essex, and hear that another EB was about to pull, did we return to Goat Lick, and bag the manifest: By now, the light was completely wrong, but what the heck, there's trains, I'm shooting. Good light, bad light or otherwise... Whoa, check out the middle unit! Let's take a closer look at 'er: And the donkeys on the rear, shoving hard:
