A set of MRL Helpers head light powered back to Livingston under a stormy sky.

A pair of SD70ACe’s lead the eastbound gas local across the 10th sub.

MRL 262 leads the LAUBOZ on an August evening. Now nearing Big Timber they have a straight shot without opposing traffic until Livingston. Time will tell what happens to this local after BNSF take... (more)

A blue MRL SD70ACe leads the Eastbound Missoula-Laurel way freight through Logan right at sunset.

Number 500 is the only GP40 on the MRL roster and has lots of history as it was originally Western Pacific 3542, Union Pacific 690, then Chicago Missouri and Western 3025, then Wisconsin Central 3... (more)

A work train comes to a brief halt as they use all of their track authority to the MP51.

Daytime work windows for Montana Rail Link track gangs have made Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, a busy place late in the afternoon, as trains waiting out the curfew begin to move. As a westb... (more)

A Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train works its way downgrade out of Weed, Montana, on June 30, 2021. Leading the way east is former MRL caboose, now shoving platform No. 1007.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe being used as a manned helper for trains climbing Mullan Pass out of Helena, Montana, heads back to town at Austin after helping a train up the pass on t... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set arrives at Helena Yard on July 1, 2020. Quite a few blue MRL locomotives are present—three helper sets, the Helena local power and MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freig... (more)

All the westbound BNSF heavies have been pushed up Mullan Pass at night into first light before a long work window begins west of Helena, Montana, on July 7, 2022. The last Montana Rail Link helpe... (more)

The gas local heads works west along the Clark Fork River as it approaches Plains.

The gas local heads east at the Flathead River crossing on the 10th sub between Perma and Paradise.

The conductor minds the first of two cattle gates that the Harrison local negotiates as it approaches it's namesake destination. A wintry mix approaches from the mountains.

SPOLAU with a considerable assist into Livingston.