Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight, called the LM, crosses the Blackfoot River at Bonner, Montana, on October 7, 2005. Three MRL EMDs power the train—F45 No. 390, SD40 No.... (more)

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)

A caboose brings up the rear of the 1500 Missoula Switch job as they pull into the clear at Milltown.

Montana Rail Link built a short section of track on old Milwaukee Road branch line right-of-way at Bonner, Montana, to help facilitate cleanup of the Milltown Dam site in 2009. Years of mining act... (more)

Under a stormy Montana sky, a BNSF freight train crosses the Clark Fork bridge at Bonner on October 4, 2005, heading eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Third Subdivision between Missoula and Helen... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 391 leads ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest freight) over the Clark Fork bridge at Bonner, Montana, on September 2, 2003.

The eastbound Mainstreeter is crossing Clark Fork Bridge at Bonner on this September 1967 portrait of the usual matched set of F9's doing the honors.

The Mainstreeter is captured on the Clark Fork Bridge westbound a few miles from it's Missoula stop.

From a vantage point that Lewis & Clark would themselves have appreciated, an eastbound trundles over the Clark Fork River bridge nearing Bonner.

The NP depot at the lonely outpost of Bonner looks sharp to passing patrons on NP passenger trains.

The westbound counterpart to photos #640955 and 640956 holds the main passing tidy frame depot at Bonner, just a few miles to Missoula.

Quietly clickety-clacking eastward on the siding at Bonner, waiting for its counterpart.. To see the companion shots look up #'s 640955, 640957, 640960

Into the hole at Bonner, about to meet it's counterpart

BNSF 8411 eases its loaded coal train to a stop at Bonner, MT, just east of Missoula, for a meet with an eastbound train.

Having Departed from Missoula and headed for Laurel was this passenger special. Before the train arrived the skies were sunny but when the train finally arrived much had changed. The sunny skies w... (more)