Late-afternoon sun casts the classic shadow of an SD40 onto the big cut above Austin as a clean pair of MRL's older units assist two modern GEs on the climb to the summit of Mullan Pass.
I think I can, I think I can... Detouring over MRL following the closure of BNSF's ex-GN mainline due to flooding at Minot, an eastbound stack train grinds up the last few thousand feet to ... (more)