Just after sunrise, MRL's "Helena Local" passing through Lombard Canyon along the banks of the Missouri River on its way to Three Forks, MT.

UP 4014, a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy articulated locomotive, resting on temporary panel track at the LA County Fairplex in Pomona, CA. UP 4014 is seen beginning it's 1200 mile trek back to Cheyenne, WY for ... (more)

Double Stacked Boxcars ~ On the morning of March 8, 2005, Union Pacific's daily West Colton to Los Nietos Manifest (MWCLN-08) with 3 units (UP 2474 leader) and 48 loads was heading westbou... (more)

Hundreds of railfans young and old crowd around UP Big Boy #4014 and entourage after the special train makes it's scheduled stop at the Victorville, CA Amtrak station on BNSF's Cajon Sub. This one... (more)

MRL's "M-L" descending the east grade of Bozeman Pass toward Livingston, MT with a pair of F45 cowl units on the point.

Crews are seen wrapping up one of their biweekly power-washing sessions on one of MRL's SD70ACe helper sets at the Helena Roundhouse. After 48 hours of hard runs up and over Mullan Pass, even thes... (more)

Late afternoon light shimmers off the fresh paint of an equally freshly rebuilt GP40X, now blue carded as a GP25X at BNSF's Commerce Diesel Service facility in Commerce, CA. Unit was originally AT... (more)

Metrolink officials unveiling their ultra-modern Hyundai-Rotem commuter rail cars as part of the new "Guardian Fleet' of passenger equipment. The pubic event and following ribbon cutting ceremony ... (more)

MRL F45s, the last in the world, lead a 124 car manifest up the grade toward Mullan Pass.

Three classic narrow gauge DL535Es in White Pass & Yukon's trademark colors seen here holding on to one of the railroad's daily passenger runs heading down the rugged terrain along the Sawtooth Ra... (more)

MRL SD45-2 306 & SD70ACe 4308 on the empty Gas Local crossing the Jocko River in Arlee, MT.

MRL F45 390 leads the M-L eastward away from the Crazy Mountains near Big Timber, MT.

Montana Rail Link's Polson Local with MRL GP9s 127 and 113 crossing Mission Creek at Moiese, MT.

MRL F45s 392, 390 and SD40 211 lead the L-M manifest down the east side of Bozeman Pass into Livingston, MT.

BNSF 6708 on the point of a loaded grain train traversing Fish Creek on MRL's 4th Sub near Rivulet, MT. It's only a 100 yard (or so) hike down the hill off an old dirt road in the middle of nowher... (more)