It’s a rainy day at Montana Rail Link’s Helena Roundhouse, as MRL Machinist Kevin Leonard takes a call as he reflects on what these new EMD locomotives will mean to his job after changing the ... (more)

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

MRL 4305 brings up the rear of BNSF C-WTMPAM heading to JH Miller steam plant.

MRL brings up the rear of BNSF C-WTMPAM heading to JH Miller steam plant.

Montana Rail Link SD40 204 leads a BN coal train over the MRL.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local departs Trident, Montana, on September 21, 2008. In the background on the other side of the Missouri River is the empty, abandoned grade of Milwaukee Road’s Pacif... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 346 has some work done in the running repair shop at the railroad’s Livingston Shop on May 7, 2012. MRL 346 was built by EMD in May 1970 as a high-nose Norfolk & Weste... (more)

Night gas rolling
Floating on a carpet that is Montana Rail Link’s Tenth Subdivision main line approaching Perma is the night gas local heading west on September 21, 2006. The rain fi... (more)

With an approach signal ahead, a pair of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's slow as they split the searchlight signals at the west end of the siding at Eddy, Montana. This is the eastbound return leg of ... (more)

As the sun dips below the snowcapped mountains, BNSF L-MON8211-15A (MRL Night Gas Local) snakes around the chilly waters of the Clark Fork River.