A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train passes the old, unused station at Huntley, Montana, on the afternoon of June 28, 2000. Huntley is the location where BNSF’s Big Horn Subdiv... (more)
Skirting along the banks of the Yellowstone River, this switch job has just returned from the furthest point east MRL crews operate trains, the Coors elevator in Huntley, MT. Seen returning to Bil... (more)
What is likely one of the last few trains for the Boardman Power Plant in Oregon rumbles into Huntley, just beginning its 900+ mile journey across the MRL. With the power plant closing in early 20... (more)
A unique part of the coal train shuffle in Montana is the wye at Moran Junction. Trains coming off the top line, Forsyth Subdivision (ex NP) normally continue straight onto the MRL. Likewise down ... (more)
Coal loads pause at a farm crossing just west of Jones Junction to wait for another train to clear. In several hundred feet, the train will be off the MRL and on the BNSF Forsyth Sub.
A single DC GEVO leads a train of wrecked boeing cars eastbound through Huntley, MT, taking the connection for the Big Horn Sub to head south and east. These cars are more than likely from the wre... (more)
An eastbound freight passes a stopped coal empty along the Yellowstone River east of Billings.
A very interesting power set leads train 212 east from Billings along the Yellowstone River.
BN's executive Fs lead intermodal train 21 and a number of passenger cars along the Yellowstone River en route to the PNW.
The coolest freight ever...
The engineer stands in front of his train as he performs a roll by inspection.
MRL 133 is about to enter a siding and grab a few logging cars at Huntley.
Westbound from Sheridan, WY
Eastbound empty hoppers headed back to the Powder River Basin via the Big Horn Sub. The train is still on MRL rails for another hundred yards.
For a few more seconds, the train is on the MRL. He waited for a maintainer to clear up and then to copy a track warrant on the Forsyth Sub.
