Nostalgia & History > Summer of '75 Adventure, Part 1

An e/b to s/b BN train crossed the Missouri River, Great Falls, Montana, 7/30/75.  There's more from the start of my Summer of '75 Adventure at:

https://gjptrains.wordpress.com/category/home/

Gerry

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Nice story and photographs.

I admire you for taking a couple of weeks to do clean up and trail restoration in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Question on BN 6592, the ex-GN SDP45:  Do you know if BN assigned this unit for Amtrak service or was it strictly a freight locomotive at the time you took the photo?

Thanks for thencompliment, RuleG.

I don't know if the BN SDP45s were ever used in Amtrak service.  I never saw that, and I can't recall ever seeing a picture of that.  Like CMSTP&P with its FP45s, and unlike AT&SF with its FP45s, BN may have kept its SDP45s and SDP40s for freight service.  When I lived in Denver, 9//73 - 8//74, I did see BN SDP40s and SDP45s in freight service.  By the summer of '75 I think Amtrak had sufficient SDP40Fs, so they didn't need the SDP45s.

Gerry