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Date: 04/26/24 11:49
RVM-47: BB looking down on a BN coal train
Author: valmont

Bruce Black photo was taken on 9/23/78 west of Forsyth MT
Power was BN 8029, 7000, 8008



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Date: 04/26/24 12:08
Re: RVM-47: BB looking down on a BN coal train
Author: santafe199

May I assume Bruce got his elevation from some grain elevator which has since been razed? Current Google Maps shows nothing in Forsythe that would provide that kind of elevation...

Lance

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Date: 04/26/24 12:35
Re: RVM-47: BB looking down on a BN coal train
Author: BNrailfan

My guest is he climb up a ridge at the Forsyth Water Spring and Rest Area just west of town on old highway 10W 

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Date: 04/26/24 12:40
Re: RVM-47: BB looking down on a BN coal train
Author: WoodwardEJ

Bruce was on the hillside WSW of the Forsyth Water Spring and Rest Area Park - https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2573353,-106.7319207,725m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu

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Date: 04/26/24 12:44
Re: RVM-47: BB looking down on a BN coal train
Author: santafe199

BNrailfan Wrote: > ... just west of town on old highway 10W ... 

Thanks. I went back for another look, and I think I found the spot you're talking about. In 2010, after my last working day (out of Laurel for MRL) and before I made the actual move home to Kansas I went shooting east of Billings quite a bit. But I didn't go any further east than Pompeys Pillar... :^)

Lance



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Date: 04/26/24 12:52
Re: RVM-47: BB looking down on a BN coal train
Author: BNrailfan

santafe199 Wrote: > Thanks. I went back for another look, and I think
> I found the spot you're talking about. In 2010,
> after my last working day (out of Laurel for MRL)
> and before I made the actual move home to Kansas I
> went shooting east of Billings quite a bit. But I
> didn't go ant further east than Pompeys Pillar...

Glad to help out Lance. Drove that way many times to the family farms in Wibuax, MT and Herbon, ND 

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