Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Bozeman turn is approaching the U.S. Highway 89 at Mission just east of Livingston, Montana, late in the afternoon of July 8, 2021. MRL EMD locomotives up front are... (more)

A stormy afternoon greets an eastbound BNSF freight descending Winston Hill past milepost 216 leaving Winston, Montana, on July 7, 2021.

On the morning of June 23, 2015, an eastbound BNSF grain train curves along the Missouri River through Lombard, Montana. The train is passing the abandoned remains of Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Ex... (more)

The Townsend local shoves back to their train in the siding after making a pickup off the main and with more work to do for a customer in the siding.

With a clear signal ahead, a pair of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's notch up and accelerate out of the east end of the siding at Eddy, Montana. This is the eastbound return leg of the Day Gas, headin... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s night gas local approaches the junction with MRL’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Paradise, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

A westbound BNSF oil train finds a sliver of sunlight as it negotiates Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on the morning of June 30, 2018.

A BNSF SD70ACe leads an export coal train bound for Roberts Bank, BC through the tunnel at Mullan Pass.

An MRL GP9 & SD40-2 idle away as a storm is about to roll through Logan, MT

A set of MRL Helpers head light powered back to Livingston under a stormy sky.

During a warm morning on June 26, 2015, a westbound BNSF coal train enters Lombard Canyon along the Missouri River and approaches the east switch of the siding at Lombard, Montana. Across the rive... (more)

A pair of SD70ACe’s lead the eastbound gas local across the 10th sub.

A BNSF grain train curves by the townsite of Lombard, Montana, while heading eastward on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision. The train is tracing the Missouri River, and is passing the Milwa... (more)

MRL 262 leads the LAUBOZ on an August evening. Now nearing Big Timber they have a straight shot without opposing traffic until Livingston. Time will tell what happens to this local after BNSF take... (more)