A Big Afternoon for Fossil Fuels on the MRL - July 4, 2013

MRL helpers head out of Helena in advance of a westbound coal train, another set followed a half hour later for a crude oil train.

Dinosaur Turds on the left and Fern Flux on the right, the coal train got out of town first.

Rear DPU on the WB Coal.

BNSF WB crude oil train waits for a crew at Helena, Montana.

BNSF 6231 W. Crude Oil train leaves Helena, Montana - July 4, 2013

Movable pipeline.

1267 Crude Oil - Flammable

Russian Oil Trains

Turn it up. Just like in the US, increased oil production in Russia, exceeds the capacity of existing pipelines to move it. These Russian oil trains are quite spectacular with the big cubed out oil stained tank cars.

 

Nowhere on Earth seems immune to the the MTV Video treatment!

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