A four-pack of Santa Fe EMDs, including a cowl-unit, are seen headed through Blue Island Interlocking as they head toward the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.

A MLAUPAS with leased MRL power rolls west through Drummond (note the D on the hill).

A MLAUPAS with leased MRL power grinds up Mullan Pass over skyline trestle.

On the pretty spring day of May 10, 2010, Montana Rail Link’s day gas local is eastbound west of Perma, Montana, along the Flathead River. Leading the train is MRL EMD SD45-2 No. 332, a former E... (more)

Flares Down the Fourth: With sets of SD45-2s running on a railroad that hasn't changed much since the 1970s (Note the Northern Pacific cantilever signal and telegraph wires) it's easy to se... (more)

Flares Down the Fourth: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s leads a BNSF Railway manifest freight down the Fourth Subdivision near Paradise, Montana on Sept. 6, 2015. The SD45-2s have been ... (more)

Best known for their SD45s, MRL operated a number of SD45-2s including this former Clinchfield unit leading a helper set on the point of a BN train at West Livingston.

On this summer day in 2002 the sounds of classic EMD 645's echoed through the mountains as MRL SD45-2 306 leads this westbound over Skyline Trestle on its climb up Mullan Pass. Third in the consis... (more)

Power from Conrail Shared Assets transfer freight OI16 consisting of two ex Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s wait to head back to Oak Island at Browns Yard in Sayreville.

More demolition work has recently been done to the E.H. Werner Power Station building, which includes the removal of the 4 smoke stacks. Click Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD45-2
Location: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: NS 1702
Train ID: CR WPOI-16
Photo Date: August 03, 2014

On a hazy July day Conrail's OI16 is passing Block Limit Station Ron. The train is on Conrail's Chemical Coast Line, formerly the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Perth Amboy & Elizabethport Branc... (more)

What's left of Montana Rail Link SD45-2 No. 301 is suspended slightly off of the ground while it is jostled into position by a contract scrapper for further incisions with a cutting torch. The wor... (more)

An eastbound mixed freight grinds upgrade along the Eagle River between Minturn and Red Cliff.

MRL Unmanned helper 314 has the duty of bringing this MLAUPAS over Montana Rail Links Mullan Pass. The snow is starting to pile up at Blossburg as the train slowly grinds over the top of the divid... (more)

Conrail's Oak Island to Browns Yard transfer train is departing Port Reading behind a pair of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 locomotives.