A westbound BNSF Q train flies across Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana on July 4, 2022. This bridge spans the inlet for Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4301 and 4311, power the road’s ML (Missoula to Laurel) freight through Bonita Tunnel on September 20, 2008. The tunnel is located at mile 94.6 just east of Bo... (more)

BNSF 6893 provides rear end support as a DPU on an eastbound grain empty traveling through the Little Blackfoot River valley east of Garrison on its way to Mullan Pass and Helena on Montana Rail L... (more)

A BNSF grain train reflects in the Missouri River as it traces the banks of the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on the clear afternoon of September 22, 2009. T... (more)

Switching the Harrison Elevator Co. is Montana Rail Link’s 844 local, and it is almost at the end-of-track on the branch as it noses across the U.S. Highway 287 grade crossing at Harrison, Monta... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local takes four tankcars to CHS’ Logan Petroleum Facility just outside town off the MRL’s Fifth Subdivision on October 10, 2023.

An empty grain shuttle rolls east on Montana Rail Link's former BN/NP mainline through Lombard Canyon just southeast of Toston, MT. The Missouri River winds through the canyon, just downstream fro... (more)

MRL 404 leads a short local through the small town of Willow Creek on it's way to Whitehall on MRL's 5th sub.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local makes its weekly trip up the Harrison branch with four covered hoppers for Harrison Elevator Co. on October 10, 2023. The train is powered by MRL EMD GP35 Nos. 404 ... (more)

MRL 4306 leads a westbound LM up the eastside of Mullan Pass. As you can see 4306 has seen plenty of tunnels as evidenced by the soot that covers her cab.

BNSF 7131 leads a grain train through Evaro on MRL's 10th sub.

BNSF 7158 leads an eastbound manifest train out of Logan towards Bozeman and points east.

Livingston, Montana was Northern Pacific's major diesel maintenance facility for their entire transcontinental fleet of freight and passenger locomotives as well as the Rocky Mountain Division... (more)

BNSF 4119 leads an auto rack train around the sharp curve at Windy Point, MT. Between snow sheds 6 and 7 on the west side of Marias Pass, this is near a location known as Snowslip, presumably in r... (more)

MRL 4402 helps a loaded coal train up the east side of Bozeman Pass through Muir and into Bozeman Tunnel.