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RAILROADS OF MONTANA
2013 CALENDAR
THE 2013 RAILROADS OF MONTANA CALENDAR IS NOW OUT OF PRINT
The 2013 calendar will be available free after October 2013
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Look below to view
monthly photos and captions
 
JANUARY - 2013
FEBRUARY - 2013
 
MARCH - 2013
APRIL - 2013
 
MAY - 2013
JUNE -
2013
 
JULY - 2013
AUGUST - 2013
 
SEPTEMBER - 2013
OCTOBER - 2013
 
NOVEMBER - 2013
DECEMBER - 2013
The
Railroads of Montana 2011 & 2012 calendars are available as Adobe® Reader .pdf files
in a compressed "Zip" file. They are fairly large files [between 7 & 10
megs], so even with a broadband/cable connection, it may take awhile to
download. The
files will come out to print
24-pages for the entire year. Each month has
one 8 1/2" x 11" landscape format calendar image and one 8 1/2" x 11"
calendar text page.
Click
here to download the 2012
Railroads of Montana calendar.
Click here to download the 2011
Railroads of Montana calendar.
CAPTIONS FOR 2013 RAILROADS OF
MONTANA CALENDAR
JANUARY
Looking West from the Summit of Marias
Pass near the exact location John F. Stevens peered a winter December 1889
day Burlington Northern SD-40 #6924 assists the Eastbound
“Empire Builder” through a 1985 blizzard
FEBRUARY
On Track Two at Milepost
#1086.3 [hence the number 210863] Burlington Northern Santa Fe General
Electric CW44-9W #1105 leads a Westbound grain train through a late winter
snowstorm a few miles East of Cut Bank
MARCH
Billings is the largest city in
Montana and does not have any regularly scheduled passenger trains. Here
Montana Rail Link’s F45 #391 which among many owners was the Burlington
Northern #6627 sit with a 3-car “Safety Special” in 1999.
APRIL
Great Northern Railway’s
“Libby Logger” local with EMD GP7 #611 and the #X-263 rebuilt from
an original wooden caboose await their next assignment on a side track at
the Libby depot in 1969
MAY
Photographs of trains along the Missouri River on Jim Hill’s original
Montana Central line to Helena and Butte are relatively rare as travel was
done mostly in the evening - in 1999 rebuilt GP30 [now GP39E] #2755 leads
an Eastbound [Northbound] freight near Hardy
JUNE
The year 2012 has brought many changes to railroading - here at Garrison
Junction the final destination of Montana’s first railroad was originally
built in narrow gauge - today huge horsepower diesel electrics like GE
ES44DC #6746 lead this “unit” train East
JULY
Union Pacific E9 #931 sits at
Butte in the early morning sun after arriving from Salt Lake City with the
July 1970 version of the “Butte Special” which was
discontinued along with dozens of passenger trains across the United
States on May 1, 1971
AUGUST
Central Montana Rail’s future
is in jeopardy in 2012 since one of the high Milwaukee Road built trestles
was damaged by flooding, but in 1994 CMR GP9 #1810 was happy leading the
“Charlie Russell Choo-Chew” out of the Hoosac Tunnel’s west
portal near Denton
SEPTEMBER
Near Terry where the only
trackage of the former Milwaukee Road would be operational into the 21st
Century - Milwaukee Road S-2 #261 leads a westbound Burlington Northern
Santa Fe “Employee Special” past an empty coal train in 1998
OCTOBER
Westbound Dakota, Missouri
Valley & Western empty grain train passes by Raymond on former Soo Line
rails. The “Soo” built into Montana completing their only
branch into the state in 1914. In 2013, this portion of the line is out of
service - perhaps for good
NOVEMBER
October and early November are
the most colorful time in the Rockies. In the fall of 2001, Amtrak P42DC
#174 is treating the eastbound “Empire Builder” passengers
to an early morning color extravaganza between Summit and Bison on former
Great Northern rails
DECEMBER
Lewistown is located in a “snow
hole” - it can be a blizzard in town and just up on the hill, no snow
at all. During one of those 1997 “snow events” - the Lewistown
Local switches cars near the stockyards on the old Milwaukee Road tracks
to Great Falls
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