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)

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local, also known as the Helena local, rolls east through Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 26, 2016. The train is powered by M... (more)

Working up the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass, a set of four Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes being used as a manned helper, leans into an oil train passing through Iron Ridge cut between Austin a... (more)

An eastbound Montana Rail Link helper set of the usual four EMD SD70ACes, drops downgrade out of Weed, Montana, and through Iron Ridge cut on MRL’s main line over Mullan Pass on June 29, 2022. T... (more)

Montana Rail Link's "ML" manifest snakes it's way through Lombard Canyon (and under the former Milwaukee Road Pacific Extension) in the distance.

A 4 pack of MRL SD70ACe’s lead the Eastbound Missoula to Laurel freight down Bozeman Pass

Led by Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe No. 4315, MRL’s eastbound Helena local traces the Missouri River into Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on June 29, 2016.

There is nothing quite like the sound of a big set of ACes leaning into tonnage on Mullan Pass. Four of them snarl across Greenhorn Trestle in the middle of BNSF 5771 West.

On the afternoon of July 4, 2021, an unusual westbound Montana Rail Link helper set heads upgrade at Austin, Montana, viewed through an abandoned ranch house. An ornate window frame now void of gl... (more)

Busy afternoon on Mullan
Three trains negotiate Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on the afternoon of June 25, 2020. In the background going downgrade at Austin... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set drifts down Mullan Pass rolling by the west end of Skyline siding

The sun rises on a beautiful morning on the Clark Fork River as Montana Rail Link No. 4315 leading a westbound manifest nears the town of Plains Montana.

Montana Rail Link’s Helena local follows the Missouri River into Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on June 29, 2016.

Four Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes add some mountain-climbing muscle as a manned helper set cut in the middle of a westbound BNSF freight as they cross Skyline Trestle just west of Skyline, Monta... (more)

Montana Rail Link 840 local (Helena local) heads west past Toston Dam in Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on June 27, 2016, powered by EMD SD70ACe No. 4315 and SD45 No. 382. Unfortunately, ... (more)