Exiting the Mullan Tunnel at Blossburg, MRL 319 West and company breathe fresh air for the first time in the last 3,426 feet. The famous Blossburg Black Fog isn't of what it used to be before the ... (more)

17,200 ponies from four Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's have crested the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass at Blossburg, and will now have the task of holding back the Boardman, Oregon bound coal train on the... (more)

The head end of this Boardman coal load eases over the crest of Mullan Pass and starts the easy journey on to the next crew change point at Missoula.

After meeting an eastbound coal empty at Blossburg, BNSF 4418 West, with MRL mates, wastes no time in accelerating to track speed as it heads toward the Clark Fork valley.

Helena-based helpers have cut-off from the headend and are out of view... Leaving two badass SD45's, the leader being of Great Northern heritage, on the point of a high priority rail train bound f... (more)

MRL Unmanned helper 314 has the duty of bringing this MLAUPAS over Montana Rail Links Mullan Pass. The snow is starting to pile up at Blossburg as the train slowly grinds over the top of the divid... (more)

See picture #444652 for the head end view of this train. One of two manned helpers assisting BNSF 5876 West cresting the summit of Mullan Pass on Montana Rail Link as a BNSF coal load destined fo... (more)

Cresting the summit of Mullan Pass on Montana Rail Link a BNSF coal load destined for Centralia, WA exits the west portal at Blossburg while an eastbound coal empty waits patiently in the siding. ... (more)

Snow has already fallen at the top of Mullan Pass when a westbound BNSF manifest freight with a pair of Montana Rail Link SD45s as point helpers exited Montana Rail Link's Mullan Tunnel. Before th... (more)

With the climb over Mullan Pass behind them, two former Santa Fe SD75Ms and a "peach" Dash 9 start the descent westward to Garrison with a five unit helper set of MRL SD70ACes cut in 78 deep.

A four-unit set of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe helpers emerges from Mullan Tunnel with a thick cloud of exhaust following close behind. This illustrates why the SD70ACes would get so filthy, so quic... (more)

Canadian Pacific 8862 leads a BNSF train west towards Missoula, Montana out of Montana Rail Link's Mullan Tunnel. This is what the tunnel portal at Blossburg now looks like after construction proj... (more)

Montana Rial Link's "Helper 2" with a trio of SD70ACes enters the old weather worn portal of Mullan Tunnel at Blossburg, MT, beginning the descent eastward down the Continental Divide back to Hele... (more)

I think I can, I think I can... Detouring over MRL following the closure of BNSF's ex-GN mainline due to flooding at Minot, an eastbound stack train grinds up the last few thousand feet to ... (more)

A BNSF westbound on the MRL crossing Skyline Trestle after a fresh snow the night before