BNSF SD70ACe 9262 leads a mixed freight in Avon.

BNSF SD70MAC 9938 leads the Bozeman Bullet through Craver.

BNSF SD70MAC 9938 leads the Bozeman Bullet through Twin Bridges.

Montana Rail Link, MRL 651 & 652 with an "Employee Special" on Bozeman Pass near the station of West End on July 1, 2000. We followed this special from Logan to Bozeman Pass on our trip ... (more)

I visited MRL enough to see both sides of their glory, both pre and post-modern. Everyone that went there couldn't help but fall in love with the Big Sky Country. This was my last visit, just a ... (more)

BNSF SD70MAC 9938 leads the Bozeman Bullet in Bozeman exiting Bozeman Tunnel.

BNSF SD70MAC 9938 leads the Bozeman Bullet in Bozeman exiting Bozeman Tunnel.

BNSF 1096 and 4701 lead a westbound grainer across the Two Medicine bridge near East Glacier, MT. Fuji Astia.

BNSF SD70MAC 9938 leads the Bozeman Bullet in Livingston.

BNSF SD70MAC 9938 leads the Bozeman Bullet in Big Timber.

BNSF's "Gas Local" doesn't look as good as it did in the "Blue Puller" era of MRL, but a pair of 75M's isn't bad either.

BNSF 9741 & 8895 switching the BNSF yard at Garrison, Montana on October 1, 2015. BNSF 9741 has just brought its 7 car train in from Butte and as soon as it is through switching will head back to ... (more)

Montana Rail Link E/B Gas Train leaving Thompson Falls, MT on September 30, 2015 with MRL 4406 & 4408. The skies were heavy with smoke from regional forest fires in Western Montana and North Idaho... (more)

Wildflowers are in full bloom as an Eastbound empty grain train head's down Marias Pass at Bison.

The Eastbound Empire Builder crosses the famous Two Medicine Trestle at East Glacier as a early Summer winter storm dumps nearly a foot of snow on the high Rocky Mountain peaks of Glacier Nationa... (more)