After switching the tank car facility at Logan, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local, powered by GP35 No. 403, returns to the Fifth Subdivision main line. The rest of the local’s train rests on the main,... (more)

The steep grade of the branch up to Harrison is evident in the construction of this piling trestle a few miles north of town.

A lone GP35 climbs the Harrison Branch with 3 cars in tow.

The Logan Local cruises into Three Forks past a veteran crossbuck that surely witnessed the passing of the North Coast Limited years ago. The Local will switch a talc plant here and in Sappington ... (more)

On May 17, 2013, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local reaches the end of the 9.5-mile branch at Harrison as two horses on the north side of town seem more interested in eating and what these photographer... (more)

An unique operation on Montana Rail Link’s 9.5-mile Harrison branch is that the local has to go through four cattle gates twice on each round trip. The train has to stop, with the crew unlocking a... (more)

Climbing the 2.2 percent mountain grade on the Harrison branch, Montana Rail Link No. 403 emits a little smoke with three cars as it approaches milepost 6 north of Harrison, Montana, on May 17, 20... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Logan Local threads its way through the spectacular Jefferson River Canyon, and alongside a Cavern in Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park. The 10-car local is headed up by forme... (more)

MRL GP35 403, SD45-2 311, & SD40-2XR 263 on MRL's 844 Local, leading a 36 car cut of ballast hoppers westward into Jefferson Canyon towards MRL's Pipestone Quarry on MRL's 5th Sub.

A pair of Montana Rail Link GP35s heads off of the main line in Livingston, Montana, and on the old branch which once went to Gardiner and the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The two ... (more)

Montana Rail Link's 844 local rolls through Jefferson River Canyon near the Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park. The former Rio Grande GP35 is towing one car of fertilizer for a customer in Whiteha... (more)

A Montana Rail Link business car special rolls across Bridge 50 west of Childs, Montana. The two BNSF business cars, diner "Lake Superior" and "Santa Fe," were headed to Missoula to supplement MRL... (more)

MRL 403 leads this passenger special off Evaro Hill and the 10th Sub and into Missoula.

Montana Rail Link's Darby Local heads south on the morning of May 6, 2009. Behind its lead unit is NREX 2020, a low emissions locomotive currently being tested on Montana Rail Link.

With the sun shinning for the first time in days in the northern Rockies, Montana Rail Link could not have picked a better day then Saturday, Febuary 7, 2009 to operate a passenger extra between M... (more)