Even it appears both trains are heading the same way, but soon the trains will meet in 1/2 mile. This is near Weed on the MRL 3rd Sub. The coal train is working up thru Austin and the many reverse... (more)

Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (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.

An eastbound BNSF coal empty drops down the grade of Mullan Pass out of Weed, Montana, passing an old abandoned ranch on the morning of June 29, 2022.

BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 9116 leads an eastbound manifest freight downgrade on Mullan Pass out of Weed, Montana, and is approaching large Iron Ridge cut on the morning of June 30, 2022.

A four pack of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's help a westbound BNSF manifest up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass at near Austin,MT on a gorgeous Tuesday morning. Another set of MRL EMD's can be seen in ... (more)

A BNSF coal train grinds up the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass approaching Weed, Montana, in the last sunlight of July 5, 2021. Lone EMD SD70ACe No. 9170 swirls amidst its own traction sand in a... (more)

Wrapped up in a Veterans memorial livery, the MRL 4407 crawls over Skyline Trestle with a long set of loaded ballast cars in tow. With maintenance of way season in full effect, the 4th sub was in ... (more)

The first section of BN train 120 has almost finished rounding the large horseshoe curve that crosses Greenhorn Creek between Skyline and Weed, Montana, and passes some mountain lupines on the mor... (more)

A Billings Coke train battles the 2.2% below Iron Ridge. The coke is often baked at high temperature into anodes that are used in the production of steel and aluminum. The Facility in Billings i... (more)

A grain train battles the 2.2% below Iron Ridge. The sight & roar of 8 big AC motors climbing the grade while sitting back in a folding chair with a beer in hand is one of my favorite ways to sp... (more)

Weed, Montana.... The small mining, agricultural and mining hamlet of weed sits in a secluded corner of Mullan Pass near Iron Ridge. These buildings have seen the passage of Steam to Diese... (more)

The rear end of a westbound Burlington Northern grain train is exiting the big Iron Ridge Cut between Austin and Weed, Montana, while climbing Montana Rail Link’s main line over Mullan Pass on A... (more)

A Montana Rail Link 4-unit helper set descends Mullan Pass at Greenhorn trestle after helping with a lift of a westbound manifest train. Milepost 17 indicates the distance from Helena on the 3rd S... (more)

On September 2, 2003, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train thunders through Iron Ridge cut just east of Weed, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s crossing of Mullan Pass. Twelve six-... (more)