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Viewing Album:  Montana Rail Link Road Trip
 
By:Matt Adams
Dates:4/26/2007 - 5/7/2007
Album Info:A friend and I spent several days in Montana railfanning the MRL, and we spent a day on Marias Pass and UP's Spokane Sub in Idaho.
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BNSF 1105
Title:  BNSF 1105
Description:  Mid-train and rear-end helpers are all cut in and air tested, this loaded grain train starts pulling away from Helena.
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:13:49 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1105(C44-9W)
Views:  862   Comments: 2
3+3+2
Title:  3+3+2
Description:  # on the front, 3 in the middle and 2 on the rear help get this 10,000+ ton loaded grain train over Mullan Pass
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:13:49 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1105(C44-9W)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
Mid train's
Title:  Mid train's
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:14:01 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4311(SD70ACe) MRL 4309(SD70ACe) MRL 4304(SD70ACe)
Views:  1176   Comments: 0
Rear-end
Title:  Rear-end
Description:  3 4400 units + 5 4300 units.... Thats ALOT of power! 34,700 HP to be exact.
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:14:02 PM
Location:  Blossburg, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4313(SD70ACe) MRL 4306(SD70ACe)
Views:  777   Comments: 0
Helena Helpers Shove Hardest
Title:  Helena Helpers Shove Hardest
Description:  A play on Hyndman Helpers Shove Harder" a B&O-era bumper sticker that my dad has. Whrere he got it from, I'll never know.
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:14:03 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4313(SD70ACe)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
Earthworm
Title:  Earthworm
Description:  Rounding the curves between Austin and Tobin.
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:13:50 PM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1105(C44-9W)
Views:  799   Comments: 0
BNSF 1105 West
Title:  BNSF 1105 West
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:13:51 PM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1105(C44-9W)
Views:  615   Comments: 0
MRL LM
Title:  MRL LM
Description:  The Livingston - Missoula manifest sits in Helena Yard waiting for a night crew to take it west.
Photo Date:  4/28/2007  Upload Date: 5/11/2007 7:14:00 PM
Location:  Helena, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4310(SD70ACe) MRL 4300(SD70ACe)
Views:  1246   Comments: 0
MRL Loaded Ballast
Title:  MRL Loaded Ballast
Description:  Early morning suprise at Tobin. We heart the HELPER4 come down the hill, and was told to put his engine at the Roundhouse for service and that there were some 45's for him to use.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:27 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 324(SD45-2)
Views:  616   Comments: 0
MRL Loaded Ballast
Title:  MRL Loaded Ballast
Description:  Starting up Mullan Pass at Tobin, this train has 5 SD45s on it!
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:28 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 324(SD45-2)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
MRL HELPER4
Title:  MRL HELPER4
Description:  The helpers on the Ballast Train shove their guts out.
Photo Date:  4/26/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:25 PM
Location:  Tobin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 306(SD45-2)
Views:  699   Comments: 0
MRL Over Under
Title:  MRL Over Under
Description:  HELPER4 in the foreground, with the head-end power above it. Yes, the lead motors ARE climbing that steep!
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/28/2007 1:49:41 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 306(SD45-2) MRL 327(SD45-2)
Views:  1044   Comments: 0
MRL Over Under - the whole thing
Title:  MRL Over Under - the whole thing
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/28/2007 1:50:19 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 306(SD45-2)
Views:  704   Comments: 0
MRL HELPER4
Title:  MRL HELPER4
Description:  Shoving across Skyline Trestle.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:25 PM
Location:  Weed, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 306(SD45-2)
Views:  1687   Comments: 4
MRL HELPER4
Title:  MRL HELPER4
Description:  HELPER4 returns downgrade near Austin.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:26 PM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 306(SD45-2) MRL 351(SD45-2XR) MRL 327(SD45-2)
Views:  1505   Comments: 0
MRL HELPER4
Title:  MRL HELPER4
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/26/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:30 PM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 351(SD45-2XR) MRL 306(SD45-2) MRL 327(SD45-2)
Views:  1317   Comments: 0
MRL Empty Coal
Title:  MRL Empty Coal
Description:  We saw this guy parked in Helena Yard earlier in the day. Here he is racing eastbound for another load for Centralia.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:10 PM
Location:  Townsend, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8264(SD75M)
Views:  697   Comments: 1
MRL Empty Coal
Title:  MRL Empty Coal
Description:  Passing through Logan, where the 5th Sub to Whitehall (actually it goes to Butte via the closed Homestake Pass) rejoins the mainline. I presure the (leaky) water tower is an old steam fixture, but I don't really know.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:11 PM
Location:  Logan, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8264(SD75M) BNSF 8283(SD75I)
Views:  1000   Comments: 0
MRL Empty Coal
Title:  MRL Empty Coal
Description:  Last shot of the empty coal, charging out of Bozeman Tunnel.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:13 PM
Location:  Muir, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8264(SD75M)
Views:  741   Comments: 0
MRL GP9 120
Title:  MRL GP9 120
Description:  It's Livingston, I don't need to say much.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:20 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 120(GP9)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
MRL SD19-1 652
Title:  MRL SD19-1 652
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:34 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 652(SD19-1)
Views:  1980   Comments: 1
MRL GP9 107
Title:  MRL GP9 107
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:20 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 107(GP9)
Views:  685   Comments: 0
MRL SW1200 18
Title:  MRL SW1200 18
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:19 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 18(SW1200)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
IMRL SD9 604
Title:  IMRL SD9 604
Description:  HA! I have ONE IMRL unit to my name now!
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:17 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IMRL 604(SD9)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
MRL SD9 602
Title:  MRL SD9 602
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:33 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 602(SD9)
Views:  650   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 342
Title:  MRL SD45 342
Description:  This is one well traveled SD45. It started life as N&W 1768, moved on to NS 1768 (one of a handful of SD45s repainted for NS), was sold to the "new" Wheeling & Lake Erie as WE 1768, then sold to the Ohio Central as OHCR 1768. Eventually, she ended up going back to EMD, where she had her nose chopped and was repainted into this EMD Lease scheme, but retainted her number to be EMDX 1768. Sometime, I think 2000, she came to the MRL and was, obviously, renumbered 342. Here she sits, keeping company with a bunch of other stored engines.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:30 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 342(SD45)
Views:  963   Comments: 0
MRL SD45-2 7545
Title:  MRL SD45-2 7545
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:40 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 7545(SD45-2)
Views:  888   Comments: 1
MRL SD45 7544
Title:  MRL SD45 7544
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:38 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 7544(SD45) MRL 1744(SD45) MRL 361(SD45)
Views:  2370   Comments: 1
MRL SD45 680
Title:  MRL SD45 680
Description:  MRL 342 and 680 were two of my "Most Wanted" units, I really wish 680 was burid, but I got this much of it, haha! I am fairly certain that, MRL 680 and sister ST 682 are the last two remaining OPERABLE high-hood SD45s in the US.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:35 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 680(SD45)
Views:  1395   Comments: 4
MRL SD45-2XR 352
Title:  MRL SD45-2XR 352
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:31 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 371(SD45) MRL 352(SD45)
Views:  1280   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 371
Title:  MRL SD45 371
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:33 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 371(SD45)
Views:  773   Comments: 0
MRL SW1200 14 has an Identity crisis
Title:  MRL SW1200 14 has an Identity crisis
Description:  Chec the number boards, probably from it's TEMCO days?
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:19 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 14(SW1200)
Views:  763   Comments: 1
MRL SD45 320
Title:  MRL SD45 320
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:27 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 320(SD45-2)
Views:  851   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 329
Title:  MRL SD45 329
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:29 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 329(SD45-2)
Views:  712   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 8941
Title:  MRL SD45 8941
Description:  You can see the old VMV logo under the 8941 on the long hood.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:10 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 8941(SD45) MRL 356(SD45-2XR)
Views:  3239   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 1701
Title:  MRL SD45 1701
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:36 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 1701(SD45)
Views:  782   Comments: 0
MRL SD40-2XR 256
Title:  MRL SD40-2XR 256
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:22 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 256(SD40-2XR)
Views:  802   Comments: 1
MRL SD40-2 250
Title:  MRL SD40-2 250
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:22 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 250(SD40-2)
Views:  1440   Comments: 1
MRL SDP45 332
Title:  MRL SDP45 332
Description:  I know full well it looks like an SD45-2, but it was built as an SDP45 for the EL, and was wrecked. When it returned, it had a 45-2 hood on it. EL only purchased the SDP45 model for the 5000 gallon fuel tanks, and never had passenger equipment in them.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:29 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 332(SD45-2)
Views:  2140   Comments: 1
MRL SD45 371 (again)
Title:  MRL SD45 371 (again)
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:32 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 371(SD45)
Views:  651   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 7544
Title:  MRL SD45 7544
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:39 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 7544(SD45)
Views:  948   Comments: 0
MRL SD45 8924
Title:  MRL SD45 8924
Description:  Probably the last SD45 on the roster with a "non standard" headlight.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:40 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 8924(SD45)
Views:  1477   Comments: 1
Quieted, for now...
Title:  Quieted, for now...
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:16 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 8924(SD45) MRL 1701(SD45) MRL 250(SD40-2) MRL 311(SD45-2) MRL 342(SD45) MRL 7544(SD45) MRL 14(SW1200) MRL 352(SD45)
Views:  2913   Comments: 3
Probably the last LRC unit
Title:  Probably the last LRC unit
Description:  Even though the lettering is scratched off, the LRC (Livingston Rebuild Center) lettering is still fairly visible on this unnumbered 40-some ton GE. I presume it was the shop switcher back when LRC owned the buildings at Livingston. They are MRL's now.
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:17 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LRCX 1(45Tonner) MRL 106(GP9) MRL 128(GP9)
Views:  1661   Comments: 2
MRL SD40-2XR 264
Title:  MRL SD40-2XR 264
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:23 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 264(SD40-2XR)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
MRL SD45-2 301
Title:  MRL SD45-2 301
Description:  I was hoping I'd get naother run-in with the MRL 290, the SDP40-2XR, but these 45-2s were blocking her!
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:24 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 301(SD45-2)
Views:  946   Comments: 0
MRL SD45-2 303
Title:  MRL SD45-2 303
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:24 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 303(SD45-2)
Views:  1542   Comments: 0
MRL SD70ACe 4315
Title:  MRL SD70ACe 4315
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:38 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4315(SD70ACe)
Views:  750   Comments: 0
MRL SD70ACe 4312
Title:  MRL SD70ACe 4312
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:36 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4312(SD70ACe)
Views:  952   Comments: 0
MRL SD70ACe 4314
Title:  MRL SD70ACe 4314
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/2007  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 9:06:37 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4314(SD70ACe)
Views:  636   Comments: 0

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