MRL's 844 local heads for Harrison behind two GP9's on a sunny but brisk March afternoon.
The rear DPU of a loaded BNSF coal train is joined by a trio of MRL locos for the climb out of Livingston and over Bozeman pass. A pair of MRL SD70ACe's bracket the sole SD40P-2XR on the roster as... (more)
A pair of BNSF GE's lead an eastbound BNSF manifest and intermodal freight making its way over Montana Rail Link's 3rd Subdivision as through traffic. Holding in the siding at Bearmouth, Montana i... (more)
An MRL Whitehall Extra crew has a train of stored coal hoppers and intermodal well cars in tow as they climb the grade of Bozeman Pass and roll through the East West End control point in West End,... (more)
The Montana Rail Link's Day Gas snakes its way through the twisting curves of the MRL 10th Subdivision as it descends the grade of Evaro Hill in Evaro, Montana. The train is in the final miles of ... (more)
A pair of GP35's work the east end of the yard in Bozeman, Montana on the Montana Rail Link's Bozeman Local, pulling between the embankments that once carried a Milwaukee Road branch into downtown... (more)
A pair of SD70ACe's lead the Montana Rail Link's Day Gas job as it makes the return trip with empty tank cars from Thompson Falls to Missoula. The train is following the Flathead River on the 10th... (more)
Montana Rail Link, MRL 651 & 652 with an "Employee Special" on Bozeman Pass near the station of West End on July 1, 2000. We followed this special from Logan to Bozeman Pass on our trip ... (more)
I visited MRL enough to see both sides of their glory, both pre and post-modern. Everyone that went there couldn't help but fall in love with the Big Sky Country. This was my last visit, just a ... (more)
MRL SD70ACe #4310 pushes on the rear of NS Coal Train 732 as they head south through Flovilla, GA.
MRL SD70ACe #4310 pushes on the rear of NS Coal Train 732 as they head south through CP Bunch in Jenkinsburg, GA.
Montana Rail Link E/B Gas Train leaving Thompson Falls, MT on September 30, 2015 with MRL 4406 & 4408. The skies were heavy with smoke from regional forest fires in Western Montana and North Idaho... (more)
A pair of MRL GP35's hustle a mixed freight down the 2nd sub towards Livingston. Good to still see MRL running around after the BNSF takeover.
In the afternoon, this crew swaps out wood chip cars. Rolling stock not ever seen in southern Minnesota.
Pulling out a string of cars to build an outgoing train.
