Helpers on the head end will stay with the train into Missoula today.

Out of the storm
With the collapse and reconstruction of MRL’s Yellowstone River Bridge near Reed Point from June 24 to July 22, 2023, and the subsequent severing of a busy main line,... (more)

With intermodal, autoracks, Boeing Fuselages and general freight, this Alliance, TX to Portland, OR train has, as my Grandpa would say, "a dog from every town".

Loaded coal passing soon to be gone searchlights on a soon to be gone railroad. Hopefully the depot remains a maintenance base for BNSF, but I doubt it will see the same level of upkeep.

The Logan Local returning to Logan, MT with a pair of GP35's.

Montana Rail Link's Helena Local job pulls into the siding and approaches the signals at Louisville, Montana behind GP9 109 and SD45 355. The train will hold here for a westbound grain train to pa... (more)

A crew member enjoys some fresh air from the window on NP F-9A Extra 7004A West. The tonnage freight makes its way upgrade near milepost 121, about five miles west of Livingston, on June 5, 19... (more)

With two cars gathered from the Harrison Elevator at the end of the 9.5-mile Harrison branch, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local trundles down the Fifth Subdivision main line at Sappington, Montana, ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Bridge 55 on Montana rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2022.

On the afternoon of July 6, 2023, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local hauls eleven cars downgrade out of Winston for the lime plant at Townsend, Montana. It’s raining, but I still shot the local ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s day gas local crosses the Thompson River east of Thompson Falls, Montana, and is following the Clark Fork on MRL’s Fourth Subdivision main line on October 14, 2018.

The Bozeman Bullet (M-LAULAU) is in full throttle up Bozeman Pass as they carry a short train towards Bozeman in the late afternoon.

Bozeman Local The Bozeman Local slugs it out up the 1.8% grade on the east slope of Bozeman Pass. The Absaroka Mountain Range overshadows the train, and the ever growing "suburbs"... (more)

MRL 250 is leading the Laurel to Bozeman Turn as it races out of Big Timber. The following week, the LAULAU would be abolished and now all the traffic gets picked up and dropped off via the ML and... (more)

Thunder at Iron Ridge
A westbound BNSF coal train thunders through Iron Ridge cut between Austin and Weed, Montana, climbing Mullan Pass on the afternoon of July 6, 2022. The train is n... (more)