MRL 259 and 255 have the honors of bringing rail up to Tuscor, the location of a recent derailment of about 30 coal cars. This was the first train we ran into on our MRL adventure.

Passing by an abandoned homestead on the Flathead River, Montana Rail Link’s Day Gas Local heads back to Missoula, Montana on MRL's 10th Subdivision.

Departing Trident along the Gallatin River, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local heads back to Logan with twelve cars of cement.

As sunset makes its arrival, a quad set of consecutively numbered GP35's thunder into Bozeman in the company notch with plenty of tonnage from Logan. A pair of SD45's will arrive under darkness an... (more)

Inbound from Missoula knocks down Park City East on the approach to Laurel Yard.

Having left the mountains of the beautiful Gallatin Valley behind them, the Bozeman Local now enters the badlands that sit between Bozeman and Butte. With Logan just around the corner, they will g... (more)

The rock train that was hauling dirt from the Blossburg tunnel project that shortened it a few years to the new siding west of Avon that was being built. The new siding will be called Bradley. T... (more)

The rock train that was hauling dirt from the Blossburg tunnel project that shortened it a few years to the new siding west of Avon that was being built. The new siding will be called Bradley. T... (more)

MRL GP9 no. 109 mates up with SD45 346 on the local turn from Helena to Townsend and back. The train will run around their cars and head back north to Helena with the SD45 on the point.

Montana Rail Link GP35 Nos. 403 and 402 with five covered hoppers drops down the 2.2 percent mountain grade on the Harrison branch at milepost 6 north of Harrison, Montana, on July 2, 2019. This 9... (more)

MRL 4406 leads the morning gas train east towards Missoula at the top of Evaro Hill, nearing the end of its return trip from East Thompson Falls, MT.

MRL382 holds back the Missoula-Laurel Manifest early on a May Morning. Times change fast and the nationwide roster of 19060s EMD SD45 s is dwindling fast....

MRL's Day Gas is the third of four eastbounds on the Fourth Subdivision.

Under a Montana sky, MRL 265 East is working upgrade toward Mullan Pass on a gorgeous September afternoon. AT&SF had its GP60 B units and BN its B30-7 B's - both in rather sizeable numbers; and bo... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch descends Winston Hill just east of Winston, Montana, on July 1, 2019. Powering the local with cars for RY Timber and the cement plant in Townsend is MRL GP9 No.... (more)