Montana Limestone Company’s SD50F Nos. 5404 and 5438 bask in the afternoon sun at Warren, Montana, on June 24, 2016. These two former Canadian National locomotives operate on the private railroad at a dedicated truck dump and rail load out facility hauling limestone along the BNSF’s Casper Subdivision. Total length of MLC trackage is about 18,000 feet, where they operate on a 1.5-percent grade on two spurs. This chemical-grade limestone is quarried nearby, and MLC supplies limestone to the new scrubbers at Basin Electric’s Leland Olds Station near Stanton, North Dakota, along with other customers for mining and industrial uses. Trains bound for Leyland Olds Station are almost 100 cars long and heavy, necessitating the six-axle cowls, which are not used on BNSF trackage. This pair, along with four Dakota, Missouri Valley and Western units, are the last operating SD50Fs in existence.
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