Helper #2 takes a ride into Livingston on the tailend of the U PTWELX after shoving it over Bozeman Pass.

MRL SD70ACe 4403 brings up the rear of a loaded diesel train heading into the west portal of the Bozeman Tunnel.

MRL SD40-2XRs 255 leads the Bozeman Turn through downtown Livingston.

Helper #1 arrives at Bozeman and will get on the tailend of the ML to give them an assist over Bozeman Pass.

Helper #2 gives the ML a shove over Mullan Pass.

96 cylinders of EMD 710 power thunder up Mullan Pass with the Laurel-Missoula.

MRL 263 and company fly west with the short LAUBOZ on the drawbars while a severe storm in Eastern Montana builds in the distance.

As early winter darkness descends upon the land, an LM blasts through the last sun of the day headed west behind one of the four former BHP SD70ACe's.

A quartet of brand-new Burlington Northern Santa Fe “Heritage I” GE C44-9Ws power a westbound grain train out of Shed 10.7 east of Java, Montana, while descending Marias Pass on the afternoon ... (more)

At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe locomotives, being used in helper service on Mullan Pass west of Helena, are dropping downgrade light engine on the double track between Weed and Austin ... (more)

With snow flurries falling, Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas Local" slices through the Rocky Mountains and across the Clark Fork River between Paradise and St. Regis. It's not hard to see wh... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Day Gas local cruises east towards Missoula as they fly high over the Clark Fork River in Tarkio. Snowy conditions prevented us from traveling closer to the bridge.

Following the Missouri River is an eastbound BNSF grain empty at Lombard, Montana, on the morning of June 25, 2020.

The Laurel-Missoula manifest climbs Mullan Pass behind a shiny pair of SD70ACes. The train moves mostly regional traffic between the two yards and the various locals that work the mainline and br... (more)