MRL 109 and companion SD40 259 have completed switching at the Ash Grove cement plant in Montana City and are heading back to the main track. They will pick up empty hoppers seen to the left and h... (more)

Montana Rail Link's local to Montana City has left the mainline at East Helena and is headed south on former Great Northern trackage to drop coke loads at the Ash Grove cement plant at Montana Cit... (more)

MRL 109 and SD40 259 handle switching at Montana City, spotting coke loads at the Ash Grove Cement plant. This late Sunday afternoon move will be fairly quick as they have no loads to pick up. The... (more)

MRL 109 is in the siding at Superior, MT with a "Jimbo" work train, which appears to be picking up old ties. These trains are used for dropping new ties as well as retrieving old ones on... (more)

Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 109 peaks through an empty log flat while switching Thompson River Lumber east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 20, 2013. The crew is ready to head back to Paradise... (more)

At the end of another long Montana summer day, MRL 109 is tied down and quiet near the Roundhouse tracks on the east end of Missoula's yard facilities. MRL 109 is on home rails here, as it has be... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local rumbles along the Clark Fork just west of Eddy (east of Thompson Falls), Montana, on January 24, 2013. A build-up of ice on the rocks on the edges of a cove al... (more)

Switching RY lumber.

The Paradise Local makes a smokey departure from Paradise en route to St.Regis