On the radio yesterday morning a welder recieved track and time to do a weld north of Stanford. As typical he asked the dispatcher how much time he’d have. The DS told him “oh, until 17:00″. That pretty much sums up the trains that passed through town during the day!
Around 19:00 things started hopping. First a northbound from Laurel rolled through. In this first photo I captured it just south of Stanford as the herd was ‘moooving’ back to the feeding area.
Moooving. The M-LAUSWE crosses Skull Creek south of Stanford.
At 19:20 a southbound arrived and picked up 3 ballast cars that were then going to be set out 7 miles away. Needless to say the crew wasn’t too happy. I choose to chase the northbound because the lighting would be more appropriate. I shot it several times north of Stanford including at the west portal of the Wayne tunnel.
Exiting the Wayne Tunnel, the M-LAUSWE is just a few minutes from Great Falls.
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