For only being able to railfan for about 20 minutes while in Missoula for the week, I'll take this one for sure. An Ex DMIR SD9, once in the dead line, is now sitting on one of the roundhouse trac... (more)

One has to wonder how many times photographers like Richard Steinheimer, Ted Benson, and Ron Nixon stood on the platform of the Missoula, Montana Milwaukee Depot. Their hope? The headlight of a MI... (more)

"The Main Street of Montana:" The NP was the main street of the northwest and decades after the last black and gold locomotives of that road graced the rails, its predecessor, Montana Rail Link, c... (more)

A Montana Rail Link GP35 is framed by a fuel pump as it sits at the Missoula fuel rack on a November night in 2008. Image obtained with permission.

BNSF 7585, CSX C40-8 7633 and SD50-2S 8610 prepare to depart Missoula with a haulage rights grain train.

ES44DCs 7580, 7582 and SD40-2 7160 leads a Pasco-Laurel manifest onto MRL’s 3rd Sub at they depart Missoula Yard.

GP9 125 and GP35 402 parked at the MRL engine terminal in Missoula.

CSX C40-8W 7857 and AC4400CW 162 lead a BNSF haulage rights train into Missoula Yard.

BNSF 5432 and Oakway SD60 9015 idle at the west end of Missoula Yard.

GP35 402 (ex-MRL 6355, ex-GTW 6355, nee-DTI 355) and GP9 125 (ex-BN 1946, nee-NP 367) wait by the former Northern Pacific Depot in Missoula before making their morning departure with the Polson Lo... (more)

An otherwise fruitless day, because the railroad was down to a couple of "dead freights" daily, found this local with someplace he needed to be, charging by the station under long unused wires. H... (more)

A Montana Rail Link GP35 sits along side one of the many historic buildings on Missoula, Montana's northside on the evening of November 23, 2008.

Montana Rail Link dispatcher at work. The 3 screens on the left show the entire MRL mainline from Laurel through to Kootenai. The central screen - on the righ of the clock - displays 6 Eastbounds ... (more)

"Older" BNSF SD70ACe leads the 133rd Boardman, Or. coal train west between Missoula and Schilling on the MRL.

The SRS 145, "Bob McGuire", sits tied down at the MRL Headquarters in Missoula on this blustery and chilled fall day.