The helpers return after pushing up a loaded grain train and a loaded coal C-SCMRBC0-45F holds the main next to them at Austin,Mt

MRL's Laurel-Missoula manifest gets a shove up Mullan Pass courtesy of Helena based Helper #2.

Helper #1's quartet of SD70ACe engines head back down the hill to look for another train.

MRL SD40-2XR 264 cools its heels at Austin, MT in between moves with a Jimbo.

Descending Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, is Montana Rail Link’s ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest freight) at Austin on September 12, 2002.

Battling the grade up Mullen Pass with a loaded coal train, BNSF 9164 is at a steady 12 MPH at Austin.

A Montana Rail Link crewman of a westbound BNSF train sitting in the siding at Austin, Montana, greets BNSF HPASKCK descending the grade of Mullan Pass on September 12, 2010.

BNSF 7299 leads a westbound stack train toward a setting sun as it climbs the east slope of Mullan Pass just east of Austin siding, Austin, MT, on the Montana Rail Link.

Kasey and his dog watch a westbound BNSF Q train climb the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass from his land on the outside of the big curve encircling Iron Ridge above Austin, Montana, on June 26, 2... (more)

An eastbound BNSF double empty train, consisting of a unit grain and a unit oil train, rolls downgrade through Austin Montana, while the road’s QALTPTL6-23D ascends Mullan Pass on the adjoining ... (more)

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)

Trying not to be embarrassed while doing the MRL in Montana, we referenced the Danneman's Montana stuff this week. This shot angle caught our eye and we wanted it in our portfolio too. A westbound... (more)

On a beautiful Montana morning, MRL 392 confronts the rising sun as it cants to the sharp curve at the west end of the old Austin siding. The power set includes an ex-SP and MRL SD45 and a pair of... (more)

A trio of BNSF GE's lead a westbound loaded coal train bound for Roberts Bank, BC through Lombard Canyon. Just barely caught the last sunlight for this train.

Oddball power lineup for a coal train going across Mullan Pass.