That same day I got to put this unit back in service after it's fresh paint job, And on my way home the car-knockers had this at their part of LRC to repair something or other.
An couple inside shots of LRC in Jan 95. Lots of interesting work going on here. The FNM is being overhauled, upgraded and re-cabled/re-wired. The GP9 is getting an overhaul to go to work for MRL. 6336 is getting set back up for use in EMD lease service. And the 290 is ex NYSW for MRL. Later that month, I took a trip to Anaconda to visit the BA&P shops. Their old coaling ramp was still there, as well as diesel service in a shortline way. The outside of the shops, it was bitter cold that day! And a couple of antique cars, 8000 gal tank, Outside sat this recently repainted GP, sans batteries.
To close this line of pictures from that Butte trip, this pair were inside the roundhouse at Anaconda, An in house shortnose job on an old SP, to become BA&P / Rarus, Got lucky and caught a couple of UP SD40-2's on the line to Pocatello, And a private company switcher,
The smiley mouth was even painted on nicely for a day or two, then a 'higher up' saw it in pusher service and made the roundhouse bunch paint yellow over the black! Still has a big grin!!
These are also from Jan 95 at Livingston, a typical headend set on a Boeing train, Another day and another 50, And lastly here, a helper set with smiling Suzie!
From the Livingston Rebuild Center shops, we had the dubious job of scrapping some GP20's and SD9's, Plus placing various units that had been in storage or traded in back into service. These CR units were disgustingly filthy everywhere upon arrival, A fresh repaint, the factory job was fading to pink and had other issues I don't recall, Two more U-boats to be rebuilt for NdM,
Freshly repaired and repainted at Livingston, MT in Jan 95, Another ex-CNW GP put into service on MRL using it's CNW number. Plus a freshly painted Pend Oreille, A little switching action, Some Rio Grande power arrived in Livingston for work, Back to Anaconda, MT and the Rarus roads, Montana Western and Butte, Anaconda and Pacific, a newly acquired GP38,
In Anaconda, the recently received 203, freshly chopped and painted at LRC, !05 still a high nose, An ALCO!!!! Just south of Butte in Jan 1995. I don't know if it is still there.... Cabeese of the BA&P and MWRR
That would be at the Scoular Grain elevators, just south of Silver Bow. I stopped there a few years ago and their power was an (ex-IC?) SW13, #1309.
At least the old Alco had a longer lease on life there! Any idea what happened to it? On that note, here's a good ole 40-2 on Sat evening, And my Sat trainwatching post, had to dig up a watr line to repair at my home,
Those Rio Grande Geeps are really far from home! It's notable that they have no nose-mounted MARS lights--that's because they are former Conrail/PC GP40s. Nice catch!
I have this extra envelope of photo's from a friend in Livingston that went on a trip to Wyoming and Nebraska back in 94 -95. I have been puzzling over trying to remember who,..... But we can enjoy a bit of CNW coal power in it's glory days!