Helper #2 comes out of the yard at Livingston's east end and will soon be shoving a loaded grain train over Bozeman Pass. An immaculate MRL SD40-2XR 257 leads the way.

A BNSF C44-9W and a trio of MRL helpers ease off as they reach the top of Bozeman Pass on the tailend of a loaded grain train.

MRL's Livingston Helper #2 prepares to cut off from BNSF Train G ELRKAL9 11 at the top of the hill at Muir.

Livingston Helper #2 gives everything they've got to get a loaded grain train over Bozeman Pass.

MRL's K LIVHPL2 13 (Livingston Helper #2) has just tied onto the rear of BNSF G ELRKAL9 11 and is ready to assist in the tackling of Bozeman Pass.

With the formidable Mission Mountains dominating the horizon to the east, four SD40-2's lead the westbound Night Gas along the tranquil waters of the Flathead River in the fading evening light jus... (more)

MRL's Day Gas heads West along the Clark Fork River with a small train and two immaculate SD40-2XR's leading the charge.

Just moments before the sun slipped behind the mountains at 2107hrs, MRL's night gas local rolls along the Flathead River just went of Dixon, MT with a four pack of SD40-2s.

Struggling up the 2.2% grade of Evaro Hill, three generations of EMD's battle gravity, curvature and tonnage with a handful of extra cars for Paradise ahead of the typical gasoline, diesel and jet... (more)

With cars and GP9's for Monday's Paradise Local in tow, two immaculate EMD's lead a lengthy Night Gas under the Northern Pacific era signal bridges. The train will soon hang a right, and with a tr... (more)

MRL 257 and 258 just put the train together after a pick-up. Why that railroader is sitting on the ground, I don't know.

MRL 257 sits near the turntable in MRL's Missoula Yard.

MRL 257 south bound heading for Missoula with its gas cars