As another autumn day turns to night on October 1, 2020, the signals light up at West Tuscor, Montana, in response to a couple mouse clicks from the Montana Rail Link dispatcher in Missoula. Not long after, rumbling locomotives and rolling tonnage can be heard bouncing off the water and walls lining the Clark Fork valley at Trout Creek to the east. As a BNSF train curves into Tuscor, the scene slowly lights up from the approaching train, and a green signal on the main line greets its passage west on MRL’s Fourth Subdivision. With MRL’s commitment to PTC installation and future BNSF takeover, it’s hard to say how long the cantilevers and seachlights will last.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
