MRL 4305 helps a loaded grain train up the east side of Bozeman Pass.

This Spokane to Alliance, TX, Q-train needed some help to get up the 1.9% Bozeman Pass grade eastbound. A 3 unit helper set is shoving on the rear end with just 1 unit online. Here the freight/sta... (more)

The Livingston Helpers are heading back to Livingston after shoving a coal train to Bozeman. Hard to believe this SDP40-2 is still working tonnage for the MRL in 2022. The unit is paired with a pa... (more)

The clouds have broken up, and the suns out just in time for MRLs LAUMIS at Manhattan with a matching pair of SD70ACe.

After getting a set of Helpers on the tailend at Bozeman, the ML gets a run at Bozeman Pass.

An MRL Missoula-Laurel freight train gathers speed between Manhattan and Belgrade.

MRL SD70ACe 4305 splits the signals at East Belgrade with the ML in tow.

The ML cools its heels in the siding at Bozeman waiting for a helper set to come over Bozeman Pass to give them a shove.

MRL's "ML" flies through East Belgrade behind a pair of SD70ACes.

Missoula-Laurel freight departs Manhattan behind a pair of MRL SD70ACes.

MRL SD70ACes 4305 and 4308 climb out of the valley at Logan, MT with 91 cars of mixed freight for Laurel, MT in tow.

Pulled out of helper service, a greasy 4305 leads the 4407 as the ML rips through the Reed Point curves towards Laurel.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe locomotives used in helper service over Mullan Pass accumulated a ton of grime and soot working through confining Mullan Tunnel under the Continental Divide. MRL wash... (more)

Filthy!
A Montana Rail Link helper set led by brand-new EMD SD70ACe No. 4305 coasts through Austin, Montana, heading eastbound back to Helena after helping a train up Mullan Pass. The s... (more)

The helpers have moved past the west switch of the pocket track and the crew member is about to throw the switch for the siding. The front part of the train is just beyond the helpers. A little sn... (more)