Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 (rebuilt and labeled an SD45-2) No. 315 and GP9 No. 123 are stored inside the backshop of MRL’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012.

MRL404 built in 1964 for the Rio Grande, is no stranger to mountain climbing. Here the 50 year old Geep roars up the the 1.8% slope of Bozeman pass.

BNSF 713 in warbonnet paint heads up a parked grain shuttle at the east end of Livingston, MT while BNSF 4089 accelerates a second empty grain shuttle past it. Both are headed for Laurel on Montan... (more)

MRL 4401 and 4400 lead the LM in to Livingston with a lone SD45 MRL 326 trailing and 4 brand new SD70ACe's MRL4404, 4407, 4406 and 4405 dead in tow. The 326 and the 4 new ACe's would be dropped ... (more)

Two very shiny SD70ACes lead a manifest freight through Bozeman Pass.

It almost looks like Montana Rail Link Machinist Monty Holiday is at the throttle of a GP20, whereas in reality he is at the controls in the cab of the transfer table at MRL's Livingston Shops. LR... (more)

Montana Rail Link Manifest freight MMISLAU (Missoula to Laurel) is at Livingston, Montana, on June 15, 2014. EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4402 and 4403 lead the eastbound train.

In August, 1973, stock cars were still in use on the BN at Livingston, Montana where these two were spotted. The NP car has had its roof walk removed, and the GN car is not lined-out, that is, co... (more)

Fleeing from the storm - SD70MAC #9689, together with ES44DC #7864 and CSX leasing unit ES44DC #5221 are hauling a heavy crude oil train up the Bozemann Pass. In between the train an additional th... (more)

MRL 323 meets its end at Livngston on a beautiful day in May after serving MRL and its original owner, Southern Pacific since November 1969.

This nice NP caboose rests in front of the Yellowstone Gateway Museum in Livingston, a major shop town on the NP and still used to a lesser extent by MRL. The wooden cross-buck and semaphore signa... (more)

Three GEs lead coal empties downgrade on Bozeman Pass passing through some very scenic Montana countryside. This view is from a hill alongside O'Rea Creek Road between Livingston and Muir.

The grain train we saw in the siding up the pass now coasts downgrade in to Livingston. As the train was passing, my uncle, whom I was traveling with, asked if I had dropped eight dollars when I g... (more)

Head end helpers assist in lifting a Spokane bound manifest up the grade of Bozeman Pass on a beautiful summer afternoon. Interstate 90 is in the foreground just below the train.

The local crew has cut off and tied down their caboose while they shove cars across busy Highway 89 and into the R-Y Timber facility on the south side of Livingston. This short segment in Livingst... (more)