Nearing the longest day of the year BNSF4309 blasts across Skyline trestle with a westbound grin train. It is a little after 8 pm as sun finally begins to behind the divide......It will remain lig... (more)

An early autumn snowfall in the higher elevations of Mullan Pass frames Skyline Trestle at Skyline, Montana, on October 11, 1997. Lower elevations toward Helena received rain, but a frosting of sn... (more)

MRL4313 leads the helper consist of BNSF 7282 West. Reminiscent of the large helper sets of the DRGW, few places see helper scenes like this in the 21st Century.

A westbound BNSF "Boeing Special" rolls up Mullan Pass and through the rock cuts near Skyline, Montana. This special has Boeing fuselages as well as airplane parts cars in the consist. Back in the... (more)

The daily Kansas City to Pasco high priority manifest, complete with Boeing 737 fuselages, grind up the east side of Mullan Pass and over Skyline Trestle.

Montana Rail Link SD7 no. 607, leads two other high-hood SDs, a GP9 and grain train up Mullan Pass just west of Skyline, Montana, in August 1993. I can remember like it was yesterday the incredibl... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Missoula-Laurel freight (ML) crossing Skyline Trestle on Mullan Pass, Montana, on August 9, 1996. On the point is No. 391, one of MRL’s cowl F45s.

Fall is turning into Winter, as a BNSF eastbound grain train slides down Mullan Pass and over Montana Rail Link's Austin Creek Trestle. An SD45 (-2) leads MRL's only SDP40, a BN SD40-2, and a MRL ... (more)

MRL 4302 lifts the Missoula bound manifest up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass.

BNSF 9376 SD70ACE and BNSF 6161 AC45 GEVO were both fairly new as they rounded the 10 degree curve over Austin Creek. The grade over the bridge is about 1.8%, this is equivalent 2.2% when compensa... (more)

BNSF 9792 in Grinstien Green powers thru the 10 degree curves and mountain grade at Skyline, MT. The original temporary Hi-Line grade to Tip-Top can be seen cutting across the middle of the Curve... (more)

Grinding up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass, Roberts Bank-bound coal loads pass the foreshortened Skyline siding and curl across Austin Trestle on a glorious summer afternoon. Visible just before t... (more)

It is nearing 6 pm on a warm June evening in Central Montana. Flood detours are making for a parade of trains climbing the Continental Divide. The 8 locomotives of this train could be heard almos... (more)