Glinting gas cans
Montana Rail Link’s night gas local finishes switching at Pipeline (Thompson Falls), Montana, on the eve of May 5, 2012.

MRL's business train makes its return after being offline for a complete refurbishment in the Vancouver, BC area. Freshly shopped 4312 was sent to Canada to bring the cars back. The domes will be ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local switches Thompson River Lumber at Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 23, 2009.

The MRL's Night Gas Local arrives at Thompson Falls, MT to bridge the gap in the Phillips 66 pipeline between Missoula and Thompson Falls, MT.

Montana Rail SD45 (MRL calls the rebuilt locomotive a SD45-2) No. 328 pulls a “Jimbo” work extra down off the Thompson River Lumber Lead and onto MRL’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Thomps... (more)

Gas local on the way to Thompson Falls

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses the Thompson River as it skirts the scenic Clark Fork east of Thompson Falls, Montana on May 19, 2011.

Montana Rail Link’s night gas local switches tank cars at Pipeline (Thompson Falls), Montana, late in the afternoon of May 5, 2012. After a mostly cloudy and occasionally rainy day, the sun fina... (more)

A pair of local cattle don't even bat an eyelash as BNSF No. 4033 storms by leading a H-PASGAL manifest freight through Thompson Falls, Mont. on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision. In the ... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45 (rebuilt locomotive called a SD45-2) No. 328 heads back to Missoula light after setting out a “Jimbo” work train at Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 19, 2012. Uniqu... (more)

BNSF 9242 and 6339 give a shove as DPUs on an eastbound coal empties headed from Roberts Bank, BC back to the Powder River Basin for another load. They are skirting the Clark Fork on the Montana R... (more)

The Paradise local makes its way west to Thompson Falls to switch a lumber mill after having spent the morning working further east around St. Regis, MT. When finished at Thompson Falls, the crew ... (more)

MRL 328, an SD45 heads a "Jimbo" work train towards Thompson Falls to drop off new ties and retrieve old ones. The train will tie up at Thompson Falls and head west to Kootenai, ID on September 21... (more)

MRL 346 an SD45 and an SD40 roll east along the Clark Fork with the morning gas train returning from the unloading facility at the east end of Thompson Falls, MT to Missoula. It will return later ... (more)

UP 8304, CSX 5002 (CW60AC), and BNSF 6386 (ES44AC) head up eastbound Portland General Electric coal empties returning from Boardman, OR to the Powder River Basin. The train is crossing the Clark F... (more)