On October 4, 2022, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local departs Logan, Montana, with a lone, weatherbeaten, but unique car. Northern Pacific observation car No. 391 is headed to a new owner, and will ... (more)
Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 405 is at Helena, Montana, on September 2, 2003. This former Rio Grande EMD GP35 came to the MRL in this quasi-Missouri Pacific paint scheme of previous owner Omnitr... (more)
Trees are turning brilliant shades of yellow along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River as an eastbound BNSF manifest freight rolls through Nyack, Montana, bound for Marias Pass on October 8, 201... (more)
On windless Montana afternoon, BNSF 5000 leads a westbound Q train that comprised just 6 Boeing 737 fuselages along the Clark Fork River near Trout Creek, MT. Taken on Oct 2, 2022
Sunset is closing in on the afternoon of October 14, 2019, as a BNSF coal train passes a reflective Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, while traveling westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Sub... (more)
The MRL Logan Local barrels towards Three Forks passing an old NP crossbuck.
A Laurel to Pasco train meets an empty coal train at the top of Mullan Pass.
A pair of SD40-2s head over the Cut Bank Creek with a few cars for Meriwether in tow.
On Jul 9, 2022 BNSF 8178 pushes on the rear end if an eastbound ethanol train on the MRLs 4th Subdivision near Trout Creek, MT.
A Westbound Ballast Train on the 2nd Subdivision heads past Tosten Dam. This Ballast Train is one of many that have been running on the MRL due to ongoing trackwork along the majority of the Railr... (more)
MRL LAUBOZ crosses the Yellowstone River in Reed Point, MT with a trio of SD40’s.
A coal train heads west along the Clark Fork over MRL's 4th Sub, with a trio of H2 dash 9's.
MRL's Bozeman Bullet knocks down some old Searchlights on its return trip back to Laurel under a beautiful Sunset
A westbound coal drag parallels the heads west over the MRL's 4th subdivision.
MRL's day gas train heads west over the tall Fish Creek bridge.