Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR No. 257 scoots a “Jimbo” work train out of Elliston, Montana, on the way east over Mullan Pass on October 7, 2020.

As the sun fades away, the stars and stripes of Montana Rail Link's newest veterans locomotive blur through the snowy Montana landscape as they prepare to work in Garrison before continuing on tow... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Day Gas local cruises east towards Missoula as they fly high over the Clark Fork River in Tarkio. Snowy conditions prevented us from traveling closer to the bridge.

Tres caballos and the 844 local
Montana Rail Link’s 844 local out of Logan heads west of the Fifth Subdivision at Three Forks, Montana, disturbing a late morning trackside breakfast f... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freight past the grain elevators at Big Timber, Montana, on October 3, 2005.

A BNSF coal load climbing Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass works through Austin, Montana, helped by a quartet of MRL EMD SD70ACe locomotives on a manned helper set cut into in the middle of the t... (more)

Two Montana Rail Link helper sets combined for the trip down Mullan Pass pass through Iron Ridge and the original tunnel/alignment. The helpers would end up going to Helena and calling it a day by... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train doubles back out of Austin, Montana, while climbing Mullan Pass west of Helena on October 7, 2020. Two BNSF motors on the head end are seen over the the first of four M... (more)

Crossing the Missouri River leaving Townsend, Montana, is Montana Rail Link’s LM (Laurel to Missoula) freight led by EMD F45 No. 391 on a clear September 11, 1995.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4408 and 4406 power the night gas local west on the Fourth Subdivision main line between Donlan and Quinns, Montana, in a panned photograph from my campsite alon... (more)

The morning gas train that Montana Rail Link operates as a turn between Missoula and Thompson Falls, MT rolls east through Plains, MT under a pair of x-NP cantilever signals.

Powered by Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR No. 257, an eastbound MRL “Jimbo” work train cruises through Jens, Montana, on the morning of October 7, 2020.

Thundering along the Yellowstone River at a location made famous by the icon NP historian Warren McGee, 20 cylinder SD45's continue to earn their keep, even as 2020 approaches 2021.

Burlington Northern coal gon No. 533686 rolls west in a BNSF coal train climbing Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass as a quartet of MRL EMD SD70ACe locomotives on a manned helper set cut into in th... (more)

"SD45s and Stone through Muir" After being assisted through the Bozeman Tunnel, Montana Rail Link's Stone Extra, led by the only two active EMD SD45s on the roster (355 & 346), b... (more)