MRL SD45

For years, Montana Rail Link was the home of SD45s like this one parked on the team tracks in Vancouver, Wash. in Feb. 1994.  They were purchased from many other railroads, used in their original paint schemes and gradually repainted into MRL colors.  About five years ago, MRL started phasing the SD45s out, sending many of them, as well as many SD40s, to scrap yards like Schnitzer in Portland, Ore.