Montana Rail Link's Helper #1, based out of Livingston, pushes a heavy Westbound coal train up the 1.80% grade of Bozeman Pass and up the Bridger Mountain Range.
Built on the last day of February in GE's Ft. Worth shop, three leased CitiRail ES44AC's make their first revenue run on a Laurel, MT to Pasco, WA manifest, navigating its way West over MRL's 4th ... (more)
MRL's Helper 1, a SD45 and two SD40-2XR's, has cut in mid-train of this Tokio, WA bound ribbon rail train with two old Santa Fe veterans leading the charge up Mullan.