Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest with MRL 4302, 325, and a five pack of SD70ACe helpers on the rear climbing the grade westward out of Helena, Montana between Birdseye and Austin.
MRL SD70ACe 4302 leads an SD40-2XR and a pair of SD45-2s on the Laurel to Missoula manifest, seen just about to cross Birdseye Road at Tobin, MT in the late evening. The first forty cars are loade... (more)
Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest with MRL 4302, 325, and a five pack of SD70ACe helpers on the rear makes its way up the grade westward out of Helena, Montana between Tobin and Bird... (more)
Montana Rail Link's Laurel-Missoula manifest rolls along the Clark Fork River approximately 25 miles east of Missoula. The train was recrewed at Bearmouth and will have clear sailing into MRL's Mi... (more)
Four MRL SD70ACe's shove a heavy coal train up Mullan Pass just below the siding at Austin. The track zig zags up the canyon on this part of the grade.