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	<description>Documenting the Legacy of MRL Locomotives</description>
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		<title>MRL GP9 108 &gt; BN 1835</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As MRL 108 has recently left the MRL for the SRY in BC it seemed it was time to make an update on this GP9. MRL 108 was built as Great Northern 683 in April 1956 and assigned to the Montana Division.  After the 1970 BN merger it was given the number 1835 and continued to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beforeandafterblog.qstation.org/?p=26</link>
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		<title>MRL GP9 127  (ex-GN 680)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MRL 127 is a former Great Northern GP9. It was built in May 1954 as the GN 680 and delivered in the classic orange and green.  It and the GN 679 were delivered with steam generators and assigned to the Mesabi Division and kept near Superior for passenger train service on the Gopher or Badger when their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beforeandafterblog.qstation.org/?p=20</link>
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		<title>MRL GP19-1 151 &gt; MRL 1744</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MRL GP19-1 151 was rebuilt from MRL GP9 1744 in June of 1991. Originally built as Northern Pacific GP9 306 in February of 1957 it was assigned to the Idaho Division while in service for the NP.  After the BN merger in 1970 the 306 was renumbered BN 1744.  I was a bit surprised to find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beforeandafterblog.qstation.org/?p=13</link>
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		<title>MRL SW1200 18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MRL SW1200 18 has been in storage for awhile at Livingston but on a Dec 2007 trip I got a decent photograph of the ex-BN switcher in the deadline.  The 18 was built as the NP 157 in July of 1957 and was assigned to the Tacoma Division.  My first encounter with the SW1200 was on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beforeandafterblog.qstation.org/?p=9</link>
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		<title>MRL SD45 359 (ex-BN 6514)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MRL SD45 359 was built as BN 6514 in June of 1971. The 6514 does have a bit of infamy.  On 1-19-80 the 6514 was involved in a spectacular derailment near Ridgefield, WA when it and BN SD45 6467 slid down an embankment after a mudslide struck their train.  The 6514 was rebuilt and is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beforeandafterblog.qstation.org/?p=6</link>
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		<title>MRL GP35 402 (ex-6355)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of various MRL locomotives I have photos of in their &#8220;before&#8221; paint schemes and &#8220;after&#8221; MRL colors.  MRL GP35 6355 is still in GT paint at Helena, MT 6-8-89. It is originally ex-DTI 355 (before being Grand Trunk) and was eventually renumbered MRL 402 and painted blue.  Here it is [...]]]></description>
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