Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha pops out of a tunnel just west of the top of Homstake Pass, providing passengers with a stunning daytime view of the Montana Rockies on its daytime run across western... (more)

With a colorful consist on the point consisting of an BNSF SD70ACe, CSX ES44AC, and BNSF Warbonnet C44-9W, a loaded oil train slowly makes its way through the junction at Mossmain, Montana and app... (more)

BNSF 4588 leads a grain train through Evaro on its way to Missoula, MT and points east.

MRL 4408 leads the Day Gas through Weeksville,MT.

MRL 4408 leads the Day Gas through Evaro Hill on its way to Missoula.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local switches Thompson River Lumber Company at Woodlin east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 24, 2013.

The SD60MACs that EMD painted for Burlington Northern were tested thoroughly, and the merits of A.C. traction burgeoned. BN signed a $675 million order for 350 4,000 hp A.C. traction SD70MACs from... (more)

Another favorite railroad has passed into the history books. As 2023 draws to a close so does the lease of the old Northern Pacific mainline through the Rockies by Montana Rail Link. One of the ne... (more)

As the sun sets on a beautiful summer day in the Montana mountains, a doubled-up BNSF empty coal and grain train glides eastbound preparing to descend the grade of Winston Hill on the east side of... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s office car special is cleaned by a contractor at the platforms by Missoula’s former Northern Pacific station before another trip on October 7, 2005. Dennis Washington, the ... (more)

HPASKCK in Lombard Canyon
An interesting locomotive consist pulls BNSF’s HPASKCK along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on September 12, 2010. ... (more)

Inside the Montana Rail Link’s headquarters building in Missoula, Montana, are the dispatchers that are keeping the railroad’s trains moving on October 7, 2005.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 No. 328 powers a westbound MRL work train through a cut between Eddy and Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 21, 2012.

With no trains to push over Marias Pass, two BNSF helper sets rest in the yard at Essex, Montana, on Christmas night in 2007. Merry Christmas everyone!