A trio of BNSF GE’s lead an Eastbound freight through the Canyon at Lombard at sunset.

A blue MRL SD70ACe leads the Eastbound Missoula-Laurel way freight through Logan right at sunset.

A track inspection train passes in front of Calf Robe Mountain in Glacier National Park.

An eastbound grainer coming down out of the Rockies at East Glacier Park Village.

In a Montana snowfall, a BNSF coal train rolls westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at milepost 57 west of Trout Creek.

Number 500 is the only GP40 on the MRL roster and has lots of history as it was originally Western Pacific 3542, Union Pacific 690, then Chicago Missouri and Western 3025, then Wisconsin Central 3... (more)

At 9:10 p.m. on July 2, 2022, a BNSF unit oil train rolls through some dusky atmosphere in the Clark Fork River Valley between Heron and Noxon, Montana.

On the clear afternoon of July 7, 2022, a BNSF coal train heads west over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, while making good time over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line toward S... (more)

A work train comes to a brief halt as they use all of their track authority to the MP51.

Daytime work windows for Montana Rail Link track gangs have made Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, a busy place late in the afternoon, as trains waiting out the curfew begin to move. As a westb... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train climbing Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, is about to meet an eastbound BNSF freight at the siding of Austin very late in the afternoon of June 29, 2021. Both train... (more)

A Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train works its way downgrade out of Weed, Montana, on June 30, 2021. Leading the way east is former MRL caboose, now shoving platform No. 1007.

Lone BNSF GE ES44C4 No. 8036 leads an eastbound grain empty through Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on the morning of July 9, 2022.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe being used as a manned helper for trains climbing Mullan Pass out of Helena, Montana, heads back to town at Austin after helping a train up the pass on t... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set arrives at Helena Yard on July 1, 2020. Quite a few blue MRL locomotives are present—three helper sets, the Helena local power and MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freig... (more)