On the final hours of the day a BNSF grain unit train passes the West End siding on Bozeman Pass. Hauled by ES44DC #7907 and ES44C4 #4269 with additional rear end unit C44-9W #1002 the train is no... (more)

Ballast Train heading East on the 5th Subdivision.

Ballast Train heading East on the 5th Subdivision.

MRL’s “night gas” train heads west over the 10th Sub along the Flathead River, as the mission mountains loom over the train deep in the background haze.

MRL’s “night gas” train heads west over the 10th Sub along the Flathead River, as the mission mountains loom over the train deep in the background haze.

Amazon containers stacked two high extend almost as far as you can see on an eastbound BNSF train cruising along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on the afternoon of June 30, 2021.... (more)

A westbound Coal Load lead by BNSF ES44C4 no. 6533 rolls along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon towards Toston Montana.

Westbound Stacks lead by BNSF ES44DC no. 7735 roll through Lombard Canyon towards Toston Montana.

Rarus Unit. Patriot Rail Corporation's Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway (BAP) 103 (formerly Rarus Railway Company/Butte Anaconda & Pacific 103, GP7, 6/1953) was sitting at Columbia Grain i... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 392 pauses for a portrait at Laurel, Montana, on October 11, 2005. F45 cowl locomotives have a design that likely reducing air resistance, but more importantly, it do... (more)

On the morning of June 16, 2014, a westbound BNSF manifest freight curves its way along the Missouri River in scenic Lombard Canyon between Lombard and Toston, Montana.

An eastbound BNSF coal empty follows the placid backwaters of the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on July 3, 2022.

MRL 4408 leads the Eastbound Gas Local West of Plains.

Shelby. Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome 313 (WEBX 801044) and former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built dome 549 (WEBX 801045) on the rear of Amtrak Tra... (more)

I have been hesitant to post much MRL stuff this year, mostly due to the fact that the state has been swamped with people all summer and most are probably sick of it by now! It hasn't stopped me f... (more)