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.

An empty grain shuttle rolls east on Montana Rail Link's former BN/NP mainline through Lombard Canyon just southeast of Toston, MT. The Missouri River winds through the canyon, just downstream fro... (more)

MRL 404 leads a short local through the small town of Willow Creek on it's way to Whitehall on MRL's 5th sub.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local makes its weekly trip up the Harrison branch with four covered hoppers for Harrison Elevator Co. on October 10, 2023. The train is powered by MRL EMD GP35 Nos. 404 ... (more)

MRL 4306 leads a westbound LM up the eastside of Mullan Pass. As you can see 4306 has seen plenty of tunnels as evidenced by the soot that covers her cab.

BNSF 7131 leads a grain train through Evaro on MRL's 10th sub.

BNSF 7158 leads an eastbound manifest train out of Logan towards Bozeman and points east.

Livingston, Montana was Northern Pacific's major diesel maintenance facility for their entire transcontinental fleet of freight and passenger locomotives as well as the Rocky Mountain Division... (more)

BNSF 4119 leads an auto rack train around the sharp curve at Windy Point, MT. Between snow sheds 6 and 7 on the west side of Marias Pass, this is near a location known as Snowslip, presumably in r... (more)

MRL 4402 helps a loaded coal train up the east side of Bozeman Pass through Muir and into Bozeman Tunnel.

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

A quartet of GEs are in charge of an eastbound manifest pulling the grade east of East Glacier and the Two Medicine bridge as they approach the control point at Grizzly, MT. The mountains of Glaci... (more)

GP9's 125, 127 pull a Montana Rail Link local, past a semaphore in Saint Regis, Montana.

The Montana Rail Link yard at Logan, Montana, is busy on the morning of October 3, 2022. MRL’s 844 Logan local waits for a MRL Ballast train to clear before it can continue switching its own tra... (more)