While out in Montana checking out a college for my son to attend we chased the MRL north out of Missoula. Kodachrome scan.

A quartet of blue and yellow Santa Fe units lead a piggyback train through Arizona's Crozier Canyon on October 7, 1995.

Changing Seasons: The days are getting shorter and snow is starting to dust the mountain tops; winter is in the air in western Montana. In the shadow of those snowcapped peaks, a trio of Mo... (more)

An assortment of Montana Rail Link locomotives are in various states of repair, being stripped for parts, or being stored in the railroad’s Livingston Shops on May 7, 2012. Up front is former Cl... (more)

All EMD Santa Fe units: SD45-2 #5807 in merger paint, SD40 #5000, SD45 #5311 and SD40-2 #5042.

A trio of SDs - led by an SD45-2 - roar toward the short bridge that carried SCL's ex-SAL Atlanta-Birmingham main over both the SOU and CofG mains at Weems.

Montana Rail Link’s gas local heads eastbound west of Weeksville, Montana, on May 10, 2010. Lead locomotive MRL No. 332 has an interesting history to be told. It began life as Erie Lackawanna EM... (more)

On a warm fall afternoon a leased trio of MRL 45's leads a BNSF train bound for Washington through the beautiful Montana countryside.

We are at Jim Grey on the Mojave Sub of the BNSF, a few miles east of Boron and Kramer Junction when the Q-STOCHI6-22L Stockton to Chicago stacks has stopped at a red and is giving the Boron Local... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD45-2 1581 leads a train of empty grain hoppers away from unloading in Superior, Wisconsin on a code blue Sunday. Steve Smedley photo

A classic (and becoming rarer) SD45-2 carbody leads the days Boron Local as it shoves down Rich Spur to the trainload facility there where trona is loaded from trucks.

A classic (and becoming rarer) SD45-2 carbody leads the days Boron Local as it shoves down Rich Spur to the trainload facility there where trona is loaded from trucks. The Joshua Tree really lets ... (more)

A classic (and becoming rarer) SD45-2 carbody leads the days Boron Local as it shoves down Rich Spur to the trainload facility there where trona is loaded from trucks.

A pair of MRL SD45-2s lead a manifest westbound between two Northern Pacific era signals just west of Big Timber on the Second Sub. This was the only train we saw with a pair of these gems during ... (more)

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.