Horizon is NOT unlevel! MRL's R-MRL8411-11 aka the Livingston Local is having no issue making track speed with 3 cars in tow starting up the 1.8% Bozeman Pass grade. For the sake of a pleasant r... (more)

Another BNSF load of coal headed to the Pacific Northwest is ascending the east slope of Bozeman Pass on Montana Rail Link with a 3 unit manned helper powered by SD70ace/SD40-2/SD70ace shoving on ... (more)

Descending the Bozeman Pass grade an eastbound BNSF stack train is about 5 miles out of Livingston, MT on a late summer day under threatening skies.

MRL has built a unique but very railroady control cab for its transfer table at the Livingston backshop.

A westbound BNSF grain train assaults Bozeman Pass west of Livingston, Mt. Sep25-2010

MRL SW1200 14 was in the middle of repairs and some rebuilding when work shutdown almost over night on many of MRL's locomotives. No. 14 stands cold in the back lot of the Livingston shops on Sep2... (more)

A pair of Montana Rail Link GP35's power a local on the wye track with the old Northern Pacific Yellowstone Branch, now an MRL industrial track, in Livingston.

Montana Rail Link’s westbound Laurel-Missoula road freight (LM) begins its assault on Bozeman Pass with eight SD45s and SD45-2s just west of Livingston, Montana, on September 23, 2002. A set of ... (more)

A grain train with a nice set of SD40-2s waits for helpers at Livingston before heading up Bozeman Pass.

New Year's Day 1993 finds this helper set shoving on a westbound BN train on the east side of Bozeman Pass.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD9 No. 608 is in the Livingston Shops getting sheet metal work done by a MRL machinist on May 7, 2012.

A rebuilt SD45 (MRL calls it a SD45-2XR) sits in Montana Rail Link's Livingston, Montana shop alongside GP9 no. 130. The former Frisco/BN locomotive, which was rebuilt into a SD45-2XR in 1992, is... (more)

MRL's "LM" climbs Bozeman with 4 EMD's on the headend and another 3 pushing on the rear.

A beat up former Wisconsin Central GP40 3025 sits in a Montana Rail Link shop building in Livingston. Apparently, the GP40 (stenciled RIMX) was acquired by the MRL when CEECO (Coast Engine and Equ... (more)