Montana Rail link’s gas local rolls through the curves approaching milepost 50 just east of Perma, Montana, on September 27, 2007. MRL EMD SD70ACe No. 4308 and SD45 No. 355 power the eastbound t... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s ML crosses Austin Creek Trestle at Skyline, Montana, on September 12, 2002. A trio of MRL SD45s and F45 No. 391 (off line) power the freight operating from Missoula to Laurel... (more)

A Montana Rail Link crewman of a westbound BNSF train sitting in the siding at Austin, Montana, greets BNSF HPASKCK descending the grade of Mullan Pass on September 12, 2010.

An early season snowfall veils BNSF’s Hi Line Subdivision main line through Grizzly, Montana, as a BNSF grain train climbs west toward Marias Pass on October 10, 2018.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local out of Logan, Montana, arrives at Sappington and will soon diverge onto the branch to Harrison with four covered hoppers for the Harrison Elevator. Co.

An eastbound BNSF coal empty curves along the shoulder of Montana State Highway 200 and river’s edge of the Clark Fork between Weeksville and Plains on May 9, 2010.

BNSF 7299 leads a westbound stack train toward a setting sun as it climbs the east slope of Mullan Pass just east of Austin siding, Austin, MT, on the Montana Rail Link.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local from Helena arrives at Logan, Montana, on September 26, 2007. Still standing on this day in the background is a relic from another age and mode of locomotion—an o... (more)

Clouds and fog shroud the mountains around Trout Creek, Montana, as a westbound BNSF ballast train trundles along the Clark Fork, casting its reflection in the calm water of Frog Pond on the morni... (more)

Powered by a pair of EMD SD45s, a Montana Rail Link ballast train moves slowly eastward as it loads at the ballast pit at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. MRL uses the former Northern P... (more)

A Montana Rail link ballast train is slowly filled at the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. The railroad uses the former Butte main line now called the Spire Rock Industrial Tr... (more)

On June 4, 2002, a trio of Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD40-2s power a westbound BNSF train westbound over Marias Pass east of Bison, Montana.

Montana Rail Link Day Gas at Dixon

An eastbound BNSF coal empty meets a westbound BNSF coal train at Winston, Montana, on September 26, 2007. Montana Rail Link’s 840 local power was used to help the westbound coal load up Winston... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 403 powers an eastbound BNSF passenger extra over Bridge 50 spanning the inlet of Big Beaver Creek into the Clark Fork east of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 18,... (more)