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BNSF’s Day Gas (R-MON809) led by a pair of SD70MAC’s gets ever closer to their destination as they approach the base of Evaro Hill. Soon they will be climbing the steep grade to the summit at Evaro.
Subdivision: MRL 10th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
BNSF’s Day Gas (R-MON809) led by SD70MAC’s 8944 and 9782 skirts along the Flathead river near Perma.
Subdivision: MRL 10th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
A ballast tamper and regulator sit in the 3,900 foot siding at the summit of Evaro as BNSF 8944 prepares to bring the Day Gas down the 2.2% grade to De Smet.
Subdivision: MRL 10th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
BNSF’s Day Gas (R-MON809) and her crew are almost home as they trundle through the control point of De Smet.
Subdivision: MRL 4th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
When I was a kid and lived with my dad part time, we would often go to Spokane on weekends to visit friends. Going through Libby was the more direct route from Kalispell, however I would always ask my dad if we could go through Paradise and take the interstate to Spokane from St Regis. My reason? Simple, the blue switchers, or that's what I called them anyway. I am of course talking about the power for MRL’s Paradise Local. While I did not know it at the time, many of those trips would be my first exposure to the Black and Blue of MRL and the last exposure to a local of years gone by. While I can't bring back those times, I can document the current times and today that's chasing the Day Gas from Thompson Falls to Missoula.
Subdivision: MRL 4th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
BNSF 9782 wearing BN’s Executive Scheme, leads the Day Gas Local (R-MON809) past the spur to the Thompson River Lumber sawmill in Woodlin.
Subdivision: MRL 4th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
BNSF SD70MAC’s 9782 and 8944 spot loaded tank cars at Pipeline.
Subdivision: MRL 4th Subdivision
Train Name: Day Gas Local
Train Symbol: R-MON809
The EMD SD70 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives produced by the US company Electro-Motive Diesel in response to the GE Dash 9-44CW. Production commenced in late 1992, and since then over 5,700 units have been produced; most of these are the SD70M and SD70MAC models. While the majority of the production was ordered for use in North America, various models of the series have been used worldwide. All locomotives of this series are hood units with C-C trucks, except the SD70ACe-P4 and SD70MACH which have a B1-1B wheel configuration, and the SD70ACe-BB, which has a B-B-B-B wheel arrangement.
Superseding the HT-C truck, a new bolsterless radial HTCR truck was fitted to all EMD SD70s built 1992–2002; in 2003 the non-radial HTSC truck (basically the HTCR made less costly by removing radial components) was made standard on the SD70ACe and SD70M-2 models; the radial HTCR truck remained available as an option.
SD70MAC (1993-2004)-
The SD70MAC uses three phase AC traction motors. Production of the model commenced in 1993, competing against the GE Dash 9-44CW. The majority of SD70MAC models were produced with the 4,000 horsepower (3,000 kW) EMD 710 prime mover while later units are rated at 4,300 horsepower (3,200 kW) and feature EMD SD45-style flared radiators. Starting in 1993, the Alaska Railroad ordered SD70MAC s with head-end power to make them suitable for both freight and passenger service; no other railroad ordered this variant. Due to the Alaska Railroad's satisfaction with these locomotives, they specially ordered additional models after EMD had transitioned production to the SD70ACe.The trucks were replaced with HTCR-4, instead of HTCR-I on former model.
The SD70MAC is no longer produced due to EPA regulations, and was replaced by the SD70ACe in 2004. In total, 1,109 SD70MACs were produced, purchased by Burlington Northern (and its successor, BNSF), Conrail, CSX, Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM; units now owned by Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS)), and the Alaska Railroad.
With a rarer event over the last year or so, NS 733's DPU, positioned on the back of the train, are passing through the curve at CP Green as the train makes its way north in a parade of afternoon northbounds.
