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It's summertime, 2 Great Northern Mikados depart Whitefish at 3 AM to take a string of hoppers to the Walton (ballast) Pit. The train rolls through Columbia Falls & passes the plant in Conkelly.

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[conductorchris]

Nice.

Great Northern had distinctive wooden 70 ton ballast cars that nobody has modeled. The right shape for them does not exist in MSTS.

Christopher

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The train rolls across the bridge at Citadel (Coram), & passes the station in Belton.

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The train rolls through Red Eagle, & after a little while, backs into the Walton Pits. After the cars are loaded with ballast, the train pulls into the yard at Walton.

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The engines get coaled & watered, followed by turning on the wue & moving the caboose to another track, followed by shoving the consist on the track & couple up to the caboose.

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After inspection & waiting for trains to pass, the train leaves Walton now heading westbound. After a while, the train rolls through Red Eagle. Red Eagle is the site of the start - end of a double track section; the site had a flagstop here along with a wye.

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The train pulls into the siding at Belton & after meeting a freight, gets underway again; after a while, the train rolls over the bridge just around the curve at Citadel.

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The train passes the plant at Conkelly, rolls through Columbia Falls, & ends the trip as it stops on a siding in Whitefish.

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