Montana Rail Link's Gas Local heads east along the crystal clear Flathead River west of Perma, Montana, on MRL's 10th Subdivision. The Gas Local carries gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet or aviation ... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Trout Creek, Montana, late in the day of May 22, 2011. The grass is green, but there is still a bit of snow in the higher elevations on this great spring... (more)

In a view from the cab of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe No. 4312, the night gas local of September 21, 2006 cruises up MRL’s scenic Tenth Subdivision. Only a small bit of glow from a western sky is st... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest) freight traverses some of the many curves in Lombard Canyon near Toston, Montana, on August 9, 1996. On the point is cowl F45 no. 391, leading ... (more)

A borrowed BNSF Warbonnet Dash 9 and three Amtrak P42s lead the eastbound Empire Builder as it heads away from the spectacular mountains of Glacier National Park at Grizzley, Montana.

Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder takes the curves through Summit, Montana, on BNSF's Marias Pass. Amtrak P42 no. 4 in Phase 4 paint, leads the train.

A couple of pushers bring up the rear of a grain train through wide open wheat fields of the eastern part of Montana.

A Montana Rail Link local switches an industry in Belgrade, Montana. On the point is a former Missabe SD9. The device shown on the left is a Lock Box for the switch off of the main for the industr... (more)

Springtime in the Rockies: A beautiful spring day in Montana finds a westbound BNSF intermodal train at Marias Pass led by three GE Dash-9s, two of them in clean warbonnet dress, on June 4, 2002.

Amtrak’s Empire Builder (train No. 8) soars eastbound on the big bridge over Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank, Montana, on October 7, 1996.

Montana Rail Link’s Night Gas Local swings westbound through the long curve near Arlee, Montana, on the afternoon of May 8, 2012. On the point is EMD SD70ACe No. 4312.

Most of the time, you have a mostly clear day, and you get a cloud. Occasionally, you get lucky with the opposite. Here an eastbound coal train from Centralia, Washington, rolls along what they ca... (more)

On August 9, 1996, Montana Rail Link’s ML train (Missoula to Laurel freight) descends Mullan Pass as the train departs Austin, Montana. On the point is one of the railroad’s four EMD F45s, No. 391... (more)

With the climb up and over Mullan Pass behind them, this westbound Aberdeen, SD to Kalama, WA grain load eases into the east end of Elliston where the MRL helpers will cutoff from the train and pr... (more)

After adding a three unit set of MRL SD70ACes to the rear end of the train and the subsequent set and release, this westbound Kansas City to Pasco high priority manifest pulls out of Livingston an... (more)