Montana Rail Link’s Gas Local storms eastbound through Weeksville, Montana, on February 9, 2014, with three vintage EMDs powering the 30-car train. Lead locomotive is MRL 290, a former Great Nor... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Gas Local creates its own snowstorm as it thunders eastbound through Weeksville, Montana, on February 9, 2014. Heading up the 30-car local this cold day is venerable SDP40 (r... (more)

One of the last passenger trains to pass Kelso was Amtrak's short-lived "Vegas Celebrity Train" which ran sporadically between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Behind an SDP40 and three F units, the tr... (more)

Under some fleeting and golden afternoon sunshine, Montana Rail Link SDP40 No. 290 pulls an eastbound work train on the lead into Thompson River Lumber at Woodlin (just east of Thompson Falls), Mo... (more)

Can't beat this power for a work extra as a former GN SDP40 hustles its train west with a hint of fall color along the river.

Montana Rail Link EMD SDP40 No. 290 hauls a short work train of track equipment westbound across the fill at Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on October 2, 2013. MRL No. 290 is a rare bird;... (more)

Westbound Western Star.

A set of BN pool power moves backs toward WP's shops in Stockton Yard.

GDR 9043 awaits it next task at the Gardendale Railroad yard engine track. This locomotive is the newest addition to the GRD locomotive fleet.

One of a handful of ex GN EMD SDP40's on the BN roster pulls eastbound at La Crosse with 8035 and TOFC traffic in this late evening 1980 shot.

MRL's only SDP40 still on the roster rolls West on the ex-NP Homestake Pass with a short MOW train in tow.

The CTC panel in Smithboro Tower controlled the majority of the Penn Central (ex-PRR) line across southern Illinois from Terre Haute to East St. Louis. At Smithboro, the PC line was crossed by the... (more)

Minnesota Transportation Museum's annual power and equipment move from Osceola to Jackson St rolls though Cardigan ahead of L517. Thankfully, the sun came out just long enough to lite the power an... (more)

MNTX 325 waits in the siding at Osceola, WI for a westbound CP ballast train before taking the main, boarding passengers, and departing on the first of four trips from Osceola, WI to Marine, MN an... (more)

Minnesota Transportation Museum's ex-BNSF 6327 SDP40 is having some wiring repaired for the upper headlamps by Phil Wellman.