Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 346 has some work done in the running repair shop at the railroad’s Livingston Shop on May 7, 2012. MRL 346 was built by EMD in May 1970 as a high-nose Norfolk & Weste... (more)

Welcome to Paradise!. For a moment it's all Montana Rail Link as the local power watches the afternoon gas train roll west toward Thompson Falls. These were the only regular MRL equipped assignmen... (more)

Arriving back at Laurel about 24 hours after the original crew, the Laurel-Bozeman turn passes an H-BAKPAS.

The LAUBOZ passes a tied down eastbound at Greycliff.

A very late LAUBOZ drops down into Livingston with 7 EMDs for power.

R-LAUBOZ splits the searchlights at West Muir on their downhill trip to Livingston.

An SD45 leads 6 other 1st and 2nd generation EMD power out of Bozeman.

A terrific set of power leads a recrewed R-LAUBOZ back east out of Bozeman.

A late, recrewed 7 unit R-LAUBOZ drops downgrade into Livingston with an SD45 leading 3 SD40-2XRs, 2 GP35s and a GP9. Quite a consist for 2021!

A yard job returns back to Laurel after switching the transload at Park City with an SD45 leader.

Soaring over a fork of the Yellowstone River, we see a trifecta of blue; sky, locomotives and river. This area will soon swell to triple its depth as snow melt starts running, drowning everything ... (more)

With the sun dropping fast, it lights up the normally yellow fields on the foothills of the mountains. An SD45 led train charges into the coming darkness as they begin their assault on Bozeman Pas... (more)

Thundering along the Yellowstone River at a location made famous by the icon NP historian Warren McGee, 20 cylinder SD45's continue to earn their keep, even as 2020 approaches 2021.

MRL SD45 346 heads down grade with 44 cars and 3,850 tons of freshly loaded ballast from the loader at Pipestone. The ballast loader at Pipestorne is the now terminus of the famous former Northern... (more)

The sound of a 20-cylinder SD45 once again echo off the Jefferson River Canyon walls east of Whitehall Montana. Montana Rail Link SD45 346 has a loaded ballast train well in hand as the train make... (more)