Western Railroad Discussion > A couple of shots from todays Livingston helper set

1st and 2nd are the Helper set helping a westbound out over the Bozeman Pass . 3rd is the helper set waiting  at Bozeman for a eastbound manifest so that can help up the pass

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 Helping the eastbound up Bozeman Pass

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Beautiful day, great looking set of poser.

Bob

A most excellent photo series.  Especially like Photo 3.
ALLEN

Good to see the 290 still earning its keep

Great series, Beautiful day!

Milw_E70 Wrote:
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> Good to see the 290 still earning its keep

Any time you can see an sdp40 still running on mainline trackage is a good day!

Very nice group of shots!
GK

How different from the early 1970's, then usually a couple of Geeps and using the "sheephook" to turn the angle cocks toward the west end of Muir and cutting  off on the fly. When the round house was really short of power you got what was running, I remember once being on a helper trip with a single GE, an old BN 5600 series, shoving behind the caboose at West End.  Ground relayed out and died, slack came out with a crack and train miraculously stayed in one piece and inched over the top.  After that, there was at least one Geep along if you had a GE to drag it to the house when you got back to Livingston.   C&S 891,  another old GE cull that always seemed to be around in helper service rode so rough over switches it wanted to throw you out of the chair above 25 mph.  The BN 5600 series were (not so) "affectionately" called Maytags by the old heads, cab freezing cold and drafty in the winter, rough riding and rattled and shook, but shoved well when they ran.

BN 31349

Nice pics!!

Schwiing!
 

Great series!