The weather is deteriorating conveying the coming of winter on Montana Rail Link’s Winston Hill. Low clouds partially obscuring the Elkhorn Mountains as a BNSF grain empty rolls downgrade near m... (more)
MRL GP9 no. 109 mates up with SD45 346 on the local turn from Helena to Townsend and back. The train will run around their cars and head back north to Helena with the SD45 on the point.
BNSF8075 glides down the 1+% grade of Winston Hill. The grade ends at the Missouri River at Townsend, Montana. While Helena may be the helper terminal for trains climbing the Continental Divide, ... (more)
Dropping downgrade off Winston Hill is an eastbound Montana Rail Link ballast train nearing Townsend, Montana, on June 26, 2019. Powering the empty train that will head west on the Butte line (MRL... (more)