Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (more)

Manifest LM crosses Skyline Trestle on the way to the summit of Mullan Pass.

MRL's Laurel-Missoula heads up the grade just outside of Helena. This train overnighted in town after arriving late at night and finally got a crew the next day, after getting helpers added onto t... (more)

MRL's "LM" slowly climbs Mullan Pass at Austin with the Veterans unit leading the way. The train is bound for Missoula.

MRL's "LM" waits at Tobin (West Helena) as an EB BNSF approaches Helena.

Montana Rail Link's "LM" cruises along the Yellowstone river near Springdale, MT with the Veterans unit leading the way.

In November of 2020, MRL released the second of two special wrapped locomotives to honor those related with the company, with the first being veterans, and the latter being essential workers. And ... (more)

MRL's tribute to essential workers leads the LM across the Austin Creek trestle.

MRL 317, an ex-SP SD45-2, is on the move at Big Timber after meeting an eastbound. The Mainstreet of the Northwest lineage of this route is evident with the NP-era searchlights and gantry.

Greenhorn Trestle:Two of Montana Rail Link's new SD70ACes, Nos. 4401 and 4400, lead the westbound LM across Greenhorn Trestle on the Mullan Pass grade on Oct. 4, 2014. Three more SD70ACes a... (more)

MRL 4401 and 4400 lead the LM in to Livingston with a lone SD45 MRL 326 trailing and 4 brand new SD70ACe's MRL4404, 4407, 4406 and 4405 dead in tow. The 326 and the 4 new ACe's would be dropped ... (more)

An unusual consist with MRL SD70ACe 4403/4402 and GP35 406/403 on the westside of Bozeman pass. The long mixed is next entering the city limits of Bozeman. The GP35 are used later for the Motive P... (more)

Two of MRL's new ACe's lead an LM on a lovely afternoon just outside of Garrison Montana.

MRL 4400 is on the point of westbound freight LM-Laural to Missoula, as it pauses at Helena.

MRL 4400 is on the point of westbound freight LM-Laural to Missoula, as it pauses at Helena.