Fall is turning into Winter, as a BNSF eastbound grain train slides down Mullan Pass and over Montana Rail Link's Austin Creek Trestle. An SD45 (-2) leads MRL's only SDP40, a BN SD40-2, and a MRL ... (more)

MRL 4302 lifts the Missoula bound manifest up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass.

BNSF 9376 SD70ACE and BNSF 6161 AC45 GEVO were both fairly new as they rounded the 10 degree curve over Austin Creek. The grade over the bridge is about 1.8%, this is equivalent 2.2% when compensa... (more)

BNSF 9792 in Grinstien Green powers thru the 10 degree curves and mountain grade at Skyline, MT. The original temporary Hi-Line grade to Tip-Top can be seen cutting across the middle of the Curve... (more)

Grinding up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass, Roberts Bank-bound coal loads pass the foreshortened Skyline siding and curl across Austin Trestle on a glorious summer afternoon. Visible just before t... (more)

It is nearing 6 pm on a warm June evening in Central Montana. Flood detours are making for a parade of trains climbing the Continental Divide. The 8 locomotives of this train could be heard almos... (more)

A eastbound BNSF freight train coast downhill towards Helena. This eastbound is about 2 miles east of Mullan Tunnel as they cross over the trussel that just east of the well known Skyline Trestle.... (more)

A four unit set of MRL SD70ACe helpers assist the Kickpass up Mullan Pass. The train is near the summit but still working hard up the long grade over the Continental Divide.

A Boeing 737 fueselage enroute from Kansas to Washington crosses the famous Skyline Trestle on MRL's Mullan Pass.

Austin Creek Trestle is located just a couple of miles east of the summit at Mullan. You can hear westbounds growling all the way up from Austin (7 track miles in 20 minutes), giving you plenty of... (more)

The Montana Rockies Railtours tourist train crosses Greenhorn Trestle on our journey west to Sandpoint, ID. Very soon the train will go through Mullan Tunnel at the crest of Mullan Pass. Riding... (more)

A BNSF detour stack train crosses Skyline on its way up Mullan Pass. In the background you can see a stack train at Austin heading downhill into Helena.