MRL 4305 helps a loaded grain train up the east side of Bozeman Pass.

A quartet of GEs are in charge of an eastbound manifest pulling the grade east of East Glacier and the Two Medicine bridge as they approach the control point at Grizzly, MT. The mountains of Glaci... (more)

GP9's 125, 127 pull a Montana Rail Link local, past a semaphore in Saint Regis, Montana.

The Montana Rail Link yard at Logan, Montana, is busy on the morning of October 3, 2022. MRL’s 844 Logan local waits for a MRL Ballast train to clear before it can continue switching its own tra... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set is on the point of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe priority freight heading west over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on July 1, 2001. The train is crossing curv... (more)

Kasey and his dog watch a westbound BNSF Q train climb the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass from his land on the outside of the big curve encircling Iron Ridge above Austin, Montana, on June 26, 2... (more)

A BNSF coal train reflects in the still water along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, while running eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on the afternoon of June 28... (more)

A MRL Livingston Helper set sits at east Bozeman awaiting a westbound manifest train, before heading east back to Livingston

The end is near, searchlights still stand guard at the east end of Bozeman on warm summer evening, while an MRL helper set sits waiting another westbound.

Montana Rail Link’s MMISLAU freight, also known simply as the ML, heads downgrade passing milepost 215 on Winston Hill between Winston and Townsend, Montana, on October 14, 2023. Leading the tra... (more)

An eastbound BNSF double empty train, consisting of a unit grain and a unit oil train, rolls downgrade through Austin Montana, while the road’s QALTPTL6-23D ascends Mullan Pass on the adjoining ... (more)

On October 3, 2022, clouds are quickly building over Homestake Pass as a Montana Rail Link ballast empty works upgrade to the loader at Spire Rock at Pipestone, Montana. The train is running on a ... (more)

A rugged Mission Range looms over Montana Rail Link’s night gas local rolling westbound along the Flathead River past milepost 44 near Dixon at McDonald, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes being used on one of the helper sets out of Helena, Montana, for Mullan Pass drops downgrade after helping a westbound BNSF heavy (coal or grain train) ... (more)

On October 10, 2023, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local proceeds downgrade between mileposts 7 and 8 north of Harrison, Montana, with seven cars of grain from the Harrison Elevator Co. Leading the tr... (more)