Westbound Night Gas Local with MRL SD45-2s 355, 331, and 382 at Ravalli, MT on MRL's 10th Sub.

Eastbound Day Gas Local with MRL SD45-2s 382, 331, and 355 along the Flathead River approaching Perma, MT on MRL's 10th Sub.

Eastbound Day Gas Local with MRL SD45-2s 382, 331, and 355 between Perma and Dixon, MT on MRL's 10th Sub.

A Santa Fe manifest is desending the grade from the Tehachapi range into Mojave during a break in the storm.

I find it fitting that the one and only train I saw on the 10 year anniversary of the split of Conrail would be a set of ex-CR SD45-2s. NS 1705 (ex-CR 6666), which was always my favorite Conrail e... (more)

Under powered and over tonnaged MRL's Night Gas was forced to take "The River," otherwise known as the 4th Sub along the Clark Fork. With two classic SD45-2s leading the way into the western sun c... (more)

Santa Fe Bicentennial SD45-2 5702 shows off its rear end while a troublesome SD45-2 is cut out of the consist, delaying the high priority "Super C" in Barstow, California, on July 20, 1975.

Under A Big Sky: Montana Rail Link SD45-2 382 leads an SD70ACe and the Day Gas along the Flathead River near Knowles, Montana on the morning of May 18, 2009. With clear skies and a classic EMD lea... (more)

MRL SD45-2 382 leads the Day Gas east along the Flathead River just west of Perma, Montana on May 18, 2009. As fuel prices increase more of MRLs 20-cylinder SD45-2s are being stored making some wo... (more)

MRL SD45-2 382 leads the Day Gas back east into Missoula on the morning of May 18, 2009. It's seen here coming down Evaro Hill near Ladyslipper Crossing.

This warm spring morning gets interrupted by the sounds of a quartet of SD45s...

Santa Fe's crack piggyback train "The Super C" charges around the curve at Fullerton Junction just twenty miles into its speedy Los Angeles to Chicago run. With the American Bicentennial just abo... (more)