A trio of EMD's operating in the Montana Rail Link's Livingston helper pool are on the rear of an eastbound manifest freight and are in the early stretch of the ascent of Bozeman Pass. The train i... (more)

A quartet of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe helpers return from Elliston, MT to Helena after moving a westbound unit grain train over Mullan Pass (cut-in mid-train). Herds of cattle are not an uncommon... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4301 and 4311, power the road’s ML (Missoula to Laurel) freight through Bonita Tunnel on September 20, 2008. The tunnel is located at mile 94.6 just east of Bo... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local takes four tankcars to CHS’ Logan Petroleum Facility just outside town off the MRL’s Fifth Subdivision on October 10, 2023.

MRL 4402 helps a loaded coal train up the east side of Bozeman Pass through Muir and into Bozeman Tunnel.

Montana Rail Link’s MMISLAU freight, also known simply as the ML, heads downgrade passing milepost 215 on Winston Hill between Winston and Townsend, Montana, on October 14, 2023. Leading the tra... (more)

An eastbound BNSF double empty train, consisting of a unit grain and a unit oil train, rolls downgrade through Austin Montana, while the road’s QALTPTL6-23D ascends Mullan Pass on the adjoining ... (more)

A rugged Mission Range looms over Montana Rail Link’s night gas local rolling westbound along the Flathead River past milepost 44 near Dixon at McDonald, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes being used on one of the helper sets out of Helena, Montana, for Mullan Pass drops downgrade after helping a westbound BNSF heavy (coal or grain train) ... (more)

Trying not to be embarrassed while doing the MRL in Montana, we referenced the Danneman's Montana stuff this week. This shot angle caught our eye and we wanted it in our portfolio too. A westbound... (more)

The couple days we spent west of Helena, the weather was about everything you could imagine. Sun, snow, wind, rain, clear skies, cloud skies, cold, and warm weather was coming and going about ever... (more)

The clouds have broken up, and the suns out just in time for MRLs LAUMIS at Manhattan with a matching pair of SD70ACe.

Stack over Two Medicine
It’s autumn, but snow has already coated the jagged peaks in Glacier National Park. On October 8, 2018, a BNSF stack train crosses the oft-photographed Two Med... (more)

The Bozeman Bullet (M-LAULAU) is in full throttle up Bozeman Pass as they carry a short train towards Bozeman in the late afternoon.

Bozeman Local The Bozeman Local slugs it out up the 1.8% grade on the east slope of Bozeman Pass. The Absaroka Mountain Range overshadows the train, and the ever growing "suburbs"... (more)