Western Railroad Discussion > Getting Ready to Go Back

I have some time off this month between Christmas and New Years, so why not use it on something cool, blue and EMD? I've been reviewing my photos and eyeing the lineups, and now I'm awful antsy to get back to the land of the Montana Rail Link. Here's just 3 images from my last adventure, hopefully this one will be as successful and awesome as the last!

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Need any passengers? GREAT shots!!!

Pack for a North Dakota winter. Long handles, boots with good lugs, a couple of cans of soup in the car with sleeping bags, good tires. Have some fun.

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Nice trio of shots! No matter what angle photos are taken, I've always thought that the MRL paint scheme is pretty classy!

Craig
http://mcmrailvideos.com/

Is that 332 still an SD-45 or is it an SD45-2

a737flyer Wrote:
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> Is that 332 still an SD-45 or is it an SD45-2

It was -2'd by the EL

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With any luck the fires will finally be out, was pretty miserable in September.

fbe Wrote:
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> Pack for a North Dakota winter. Long handles,
> boots with good lugs, a couple of cans of soup in
> the car with sleeping bags, good tires. Have some
> fun.
>
> Posted from Windows Phone OS 7


Don't forget the shovel. Stuck in the snow on top of lonely Mullan Pass (in fading light) is not fun. :D

Mr. MRL ~ ask me how I know...

> Don't forget the shovel. Stuck in the snow on top of lonely Mullan Pass (in
> fading light) is not fun. :D
>
> Mr. MRL ~ ask me how I know...

[Putting on my best straight man face]

Okay Robbie ~ How do you know?

MrMRL Wrote:
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> fbe Wrote:
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> > Pack for a North Dakota winter. Long handles,
> > boots with good lugs, a couple of cans of soup
> in
> > the car with sleeping bags, good tires. Have
> some
> > fun.
> >
> > Posted from Windows Phone OS 7
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> Don't forget the shovel. Stuck in the snow on top
> of lonely Mullan Pass (in fading light) is not
> fun. :D
>
> Mr. MRL ~ ask me how I know...

Extra car keys on Mullan are a must as well, like for instance, in case you are hiking in around the horseshoe curve at Austen and you manage to have your keys fall out of your pocket an hour before sunset...not that I have any firsthand experience with such disasters...

what is the significant of the red dot on the front of the nose?

Javier Ortiz
Dallas, TX

-2 by EMD

fbe Wrote:
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> a737flyer Wrote:
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> > Is that 332 still an SD-45 or is it an SD45-2
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> It was -2'd by the EL
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> Posted from Windows Phone OS 7

Great photos, first shot beautiful.........all are.

chefjavier Wrote:

> what is the significant of the red dot on the
> front of the nose?

At start up in '87 there was some gossip that there was some Japanese funding in the take-over.
(But you didn't hear it from me... ;^)

LV95032 Wrote:
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> -2 by EMD

...NO FLARED RADIATORS.
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> fbe Wrote:
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> > > Is that 332 still an SD-45 or is it an SD45-2
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> > It was -2'd by the EL
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> > Posted from Windows Phone OS 7

Very Nice pics.Did MRL purchase any other power besides the SD70Ace's new.
Regards,DK

NIIICE pics!!!!

MRL 332 was the former EL 3657,an SDP-45, she was wrecked on the EL and went to their Hornell,NY shop and came back with a new -2 long hood and -2 electronics and may I add its fantastic to see her alive and well!

DKay Wrote:
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>.Did MRL purchase any other power
> besides the SD70Ace's new.

Nope!

And regarding the Red Dot on the nose, I believe I was told by Mr MRL, that it was CEECO's symbol, that was put on when that company repainted the units.