MRL 290, near the end of it's lease by the EWG, finds itself leading the WRIX 8702 and the NIWX 9129 at the head of a scoot/shuttle train. The power has cut off from the train in order to pick up ... (more)

A nice little display courtesy of the Minnesota Transportation Museum. BN 325 and Northern Pacific Railway Post Office/Combine Car No. 1102 where on display at St. Paul Union Depot for Train Days.

Eastern Washington Gateway's "scooter" train has picked up at Almira, WA and is following a shallow coulee east through sagebrush and wheat fields to Govan and Wilbur. The train will sto... (more)

Eastern Washington Gateway's "scooter" train heads east through Hartline, WA after making a stop to pick up two grain loads. Next stop Almira for 15 more. The train cruises the former CW... (more)

MRL 290, former GN SDP40 321/BN 6395, is on lease to Eastern Washington Gateway. The crew has gone to work by driving out two hours to Coulee City, WA from Cheney, fired up the power and have move... (more)

An Eastern Washington Gateway "Scooter" train climbs a crest in the undulating wheat fields at Hanson Station, WA a few miles west of Almira. The train originated at Coulee City, WA with... (more)

Far from the green trees of Montana, MRL 290, on lease to the Eastern Washington Gateway, finds itself in the midst of sagebrush at the lonely spot of Odair, just outside of Coulee City, WA, en ro... (more)

Westbound Great Northern SDP40 9854 with BN numbers at Seattle, Washington May 24,1970. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

The only SDP40 to receive the "Whiteface" scheme, BN 6399 heads West with the "Beer Run" that is heading to the Coors brewery located in Golden. It is passing an old Rotary sno... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local flies though the snow at Dixon, Montana, on a cold February 9, 2014. On the lead is MRL’s only EMD SDP40, No. 290.

More interested in the photographers, two horses ignore Montana Rail Link’s rare and only SDP40 (MRL labels it a SDP40-2XR) leading a work train at Clarkston, Montana, on September 14, 2010.

Great Northern’s 4-car Train No. 323 leaves CN and GN’s depot at Vancouver, B.C., headed for Seattle on April 10, 1969. Even though one of GN’s boiler-equipped SDP-40’s leads the train, a... (more)

No HEP (head-end power 480-v.) here in GN’s Seattle coach yard where the cars are hooked to ground steam on rainy April 9, 1970 The Big Sky Blue didn’t last long as the merger creating Burlin... (more)

During Great Northern’s “Big Sky Blue" era, eastbound Train 28 Western Star makes its station stop at Whitefish, Montana on April 9, 1969. Boiler-equipped SDP-40 322 and its two F unit m... (more)

A crew member is framed between the signals protecting the junction of MRL's 10th and 4th Subdivisions as he uncouples 290 from the Paradise Local's GP9s. The former GN SDP40 would be used on a wo... (more)