The Montana Rail Link day gas local heading west along the Clark Fork at Plains.
The MRL day gas train creeps into Paradise with 11 cars to drop off in the Paradise yard before heading off to Thompson Falls. This train used the fourth sub on this day due to a Loram rail grind... (more)
Strolling West at track speed, MRL 4408 has no issue keeping the Silver Cloud passenger train at track speed, paralleling the incredibly scenic Clark Fork River on a sensational June afternoon.
The waters of Trout Creek are calm and smooth as the MRL business car special heads west to Kootenai, ID with a large group of people on board heading for a family reunion in Coeur D'Alene.
The engineer on the MRL business car special has his train down to a crawl while crossing over Fish Creek along the MRL's scenic 4th Subdivision between Missoula and St. Regis.
The Montana Rail Link business car train makes a very rare appearance over Lake Pend Oreille while returning from Spokane where the train was wyed after running west out of Missoula in the morning... (more)
Soaring high over the white waters of the Fish Creek, MRL's Silver Cloud business train crawls West with a train full of passengers. Dennis Washington put on a show for a business partners' family... (more)
Montana Rail Link's Missoula West dispatcher has bent the iron at the West siding switch Plains for an approaching Eastbound manifest to take the hole, while two sparkling SD70ACe's idle on the ma... (more)
The gas local glides along the Flathead River on the way to Thompson Falls to be loaded as a gorgeous sunrise starts to crest the mountains to the east. This train will have locomotive issues late... (more)
The metal on metal sounds of wheelslip drone out two EMD 710 series as raindrops fall from the sky on a late Winter evening, while two Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's are on a losing battle - tonnage,... (more)
The Sunday night gas is heading for the 10th Sub with the Paradise local power & train behind the usual road power for the gas local.
MRL 4408 and 4401 along with an SD40 roll an eastbound ML train past a vintage farm near Elliston, MT. The train will soon make the climb over Mullen Pass with the next crew change at Helena.