Traveling along the frozen Clark Fork, Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local passes through Woodlin, Montana, on February 7, 2014. The nose of GP9 No. 127 is packed with the tools of winter; two br... (more)

The westbound Paradise Local rumbles downriver toward its home base with a string of empty lumber cars, passing some small rapids on the Clark Fork River near Quinns.

Traveling along the frozen Clark Fork, Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local passes through Woodlin, Montana, on February 7, 2014. The local will switch customers on the Thompson River Lumber Lead ... (more)

The MRL local handling the Hamilton branch leaves Missoula yard on MRL and begins a slow trip down to Victor, MT on a rainy May day in 2013.

On a wet May 18, 2013, Montana Rail Link’s Darby local passes milepost 7 south of Missoula, Montana. To ease the load on the line’s numerous wood trestles, two empty boxcars act as spacers fo... (more)

Start the day right - This has meant that monday to catch the two GP9's - the motive power for the Paradise local - on their starting and warming up phase. #127 is freshly painted with the meatbal... (more)

Crossing the Clark Fork Bridge at Paradise, Montana, on the morning of May 3, 2012, Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local departs for St. Regis laying down a puff of blue smoke as it accelerated ou... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local backs up the Thompson River Lumber Lead at Woodlin near Thompson Falls, Montana, on a cold, crisp February 7, 2014. Recently repainted EMD GP9 No. 127 leads th... (more)

MRL 127 leads the Paradise Local arrives on the east side of Thompson Falls, Montana to switch the lumber mill. MRL crews had just finished shoveling out the switches. With e recent snow, wind and... (more)

Montana Rail Link's local down the Bitterroot Branch (9th Subdivision) rolls across a small trestle and past an old downed tree in the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge north of Stevensville, M... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Bitterroot branch (also known as the Darby branch) local passes over some backwaters of the Bitterroot River north of Florence, Montana, on May 18, 2013. This line had high w... (more)

End of the line at Victor
Montana Rail Link’s Bitterroot branch (also known as the Darby branch) local arrives at Victor, Montana, under threatening skies on May 18, 2013. This line h... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local cruises along the Clark Fork at Donlan, Montana, on May 3, 2012. The short four car train is headed for Tricon Timber in St. Regis and is powered by two GP9s, ... (more)

The Paradise local makes its way west to Thompson Falls to switch a lumber mill after having spent the morning working further east around St. Regis, MT. When finished at Thompson Falls, the crew ... (more)

For the first time in nearly a year, Montana Rail Link dispatched a local down the former Northern Pacific Darby Branch, south of Missoula. The line had been shut down in June 2011 after fl... (more)