In most apropos weather, a Montana Rail Link “funeral train” of 17 retired and soon-to-be-scrapped locomotives prepares to leave Livingston, Montana, on May 24, 2011. The group of EMDs, mostly... (more)

The transfer table in the back of the Livingston shops sits idle on a bitterly cold March day.

A variety of MRL power congregates in Livingston, including a number of SD45s that are no longer on the roster in 2015.

Cab of the transfer table at MRL's Livingston Shops from an old EMD GP20

On July 15th, 1806, part of the Lewis and Clark expedition led by Sacajawea traveled along an old buffalo trail through this pass of the Gallatin Range, a spur of the Rockies. In the mid 1860’s... (more)

The impressive Absaroka Mountains stand tall over MRL's Laurel to Missoula manifest, which is clawing its way up the 1.8% grade of Bozeman Pass with a trio of SD70ACe's leading the charge.

What's left of Montana Rail Link SD45-2 No. 301 is lifted off of its front truck for the last time. The contract worker is cutting the last appendage (a speed recorder cable) before the crane lift... (more)

Electrician Ben Hampson rewires the control stand of former Wisconsin Central No. 3025. The GP40 was acquired by MRL when CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Co.) closed in 2009. It sat indoors in L... (more)

An MRL helper set shoves yet another mixed freight train over Bozeman Pass.

A quartet of SD40-2s have a manifest well in hand as it rolls west around the big bend in the Yellowstone River about 8-10 miles east of Livingston, MT on a sunny July 1, 1986. By October 1987 thi... (more)

A heavy BNSF grain train is almost to the tunnel at the crest of Bozeman Pass as the sun works to crest the mountains that surround Livingston, Montana.

BNSF grain train struggles up Bozeman Pass during a cold March sunrise. Montana Rail Link helpers were adding in Livingston to help shove on the rear of the train. They will cut off just before c... (more)

Three Montana Rail Link SD45s (351, 326 and 355) fly along the Second Subdivision just east of Livingston with a BNSF manifest freight on September 28, 2014. Even though these flared motors are re... (more)

Minutes after changing crews, a Burlington Northern intermodal train rolls by the beautiful Northern Pacific station at Livingston, Montana on May 24, 1986. Built in 1902 and designed by the archi... (more)