Exhaust singes the sky as the Laurel-Missoula Manifest screams out of Helena. The train will soon reach grades of 2.2% on its twisting climb up and over the Continental Divide.

The Gas local prepares to pickup its empty gas cars at Thompson Falls, MT. MRL 4312 is one of the locomotives to wear the new company paint scheme.

MRL4312 lifts the Laurel-Missoula Manifest up out of Helena. Grade is not yet 2.2% but soon will be!