The Paradise local scurries west from St. Regis, MT after switching the lumber mill along the Clark Fork. A pair of rebuilt GP9s are more than enough power for today's short train. Local traffic h... (more)

In the pouring rain, a member of Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local works with a power switch so the pair of GP9s can complete running around its train at St. Regis, Montana, on September 25, 20... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe unit grain train passes the Northern Pacific-era semaphores at milepost 192 east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 1, 2003.

BN 2701 and two more GP39-2s roll a westbound TOFC train through St. Regis, Montana along the Clark Fork en route to Spokane and Seattle/Portland. This train is operating on the former Northern Pa... (more)

A pair of Montana Rail Link GP9s on the Paradise Local make time across the Clark Fork spewing exhaust and loaded with logs for Tricon Timber in St. Regis. The drive from Paradise to St. Regis rea... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local has finished running around its train at St. Regis, Montana, and is departing westbound for Paradise on September 15, 2011. Powered by two former Northern Paci... (more)

BNSF 4129 leads a colorful lash up of power including a Canadian Pacific ES44AC and a warbonnet SD75I through an elevated turn towards St. Regis, Montana on the Montana Rail Link.

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local arrives in St. Regis, Montana, to run around its train and head back to Paradise on September 13, 2011. A pair of venerable EMD GP9s power the train; Nos. 113 ... (more)

It’s dawn in the Clark Fork River Valley east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 13, 1998. Fog is slowly burning off in the low areas as the sun is about to rise above the mountains to the east... (more)

MILW Little Joe E76 powers up and leads three SD40-2s (3009, 3018, 3000) eastward out of St. Regis, Montana across the namesake St. Regis River on August 9, 1973. Following the river was the Nor... (more)

Two former Northern Pacific GP9s on Montana Rail Link's Paradise Local run around their train to head back to Paradise. I'm standing on the Milwaukee Road's Pacific extension right-of-way which cr... (more)

The Montana Rail Link hauls BNSF's Memphis, TN - South Seattle, WA stack train through a pair of Northern Pacific upper quadrant semaphores west of Spring Gulch, Montana.

The Montana Rail Link hauls BNSF's Laurel, MT - Spokane, WA mixed freight by a former Northern Pacific upper quadrant semaphore west of Spring Gulch, Montana.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight on the Montana Rail Link passes the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2001.

A "train" of Montana Rail Link track machinery, moves to get in the clear for MRL's Paradise Local which is waiting in the distance. The local is finishing switching chores at a lumber mill just w... (more)