After running the full length of their assigned territory west to Whitehall, the 844 local is returning east as it enters the west end of Jefferson River Canyon on their way to Logan.
The waters of Trout Creek are calm and smooth as the MRL business car special heads west to Kootenai, ID with a large group of people on board heading for a family reunion in Coeur D'Alene.
The engineer on the MRL business car special has his train down to a crawl while crossing over Fish Creek along the MRL's scenic 4th Subdivision between Missoula and St. Regis.
The Montana Rail Link business car train makes a very rare appearance over Lake Pend Oreille while returning from Spokane where the train was wyed after running west out of Missoula in the morning... (more)
While it may look just like an ordinary GE Evolution Series locomotive to most, the ES44AC variant on the point of a Z train on the Chicago to Los Angeles "transcon" is a rather rare sig... (more)