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.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local from Helena arrives at Logan, Montana, on September 26, 2007. Still standing on this day in the background is a relic from another age and mode of locomotion—an o... (more)

Clouds and fog shroud the mountains around Trout Creek, Montana, as a westbound BNSF ballast train trundles along the Clark Fork, casting its reflection in the calm water of Frog Pond on the morni... (more)

Powered by a pair of EMD SD45s, a Montana Rail Link ballast train moves slowly eastward as it loads at the ballast pit at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. MRL uses the former Northern P... (more)

A Montana Rail link ballast train is slowly filled at the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. The railroad uses the former Butte main line now called the Spire Rock Industrial Tr... (more)

On June 4, 2002, a trio of Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD40-2s power a westbound BNSF train westbound over Marias Pass east of Bison, Montana.

Montana Rail Link Day Gas at Dixon

An eastbound BNSF coal empty meets a westbound BNSF coal train at Winston, Montana, on September 26, 2007. Montana Rail Link’s 840 local power was used to help the westbound coal load up Winston... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 403 powers an eastbound BNSF passenger extra over Bridge 50 spanning the inlet of Big Beaver Creek into the Clark Fork east of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 18,... (more)

A westbound BNSF Q train flies across Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana on July 4, 2022. This bridge spans the inlet for Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4301 and 4311, power the road’s ML (Missoula to Laurel) freight through Bonita Tunnel on September 20, 2008. The tunnel is located at mile 94.6 just east of Bo... (more)

BNSF 6893 provides rear end support as a DPU on an eastbound grain empty traveling through the Little Blackfoot River valley east of Garrison on its way to Mullan Pass and Helena on Montana Rail L... (more)

A BNSF grain train reflects in the Missouri River as it traces the banks of the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on the clear afternoon of September 22, 2009. T... (more)

Switching the Harrison Elevator Co. is Montana Rail Link’s 844 local, and it is almost at the end-of-track on the branch as it noses across the U.S. Highway 287 grade crossing at Harrison, Monta... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local takes four tankcars to CHS’ Logan Petroleum Facility just outside town off the MRL’s Fifth Subdivision on October 10, 2023.