An empty MRL ballast train switches just outside downtown Willow Creek.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link SD70ACes help lift a loaded westbound grain train up Mullan Pass west of Helena. This location is just east of the east switch of Austin siding. Note this group of h... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local heads east along the Flathead River just east of Perma, Montana, on September 28, 2007.

Having Departed from Missoula and headed for Laurel was this passenger special. Before the train arrived the skies were sunny but when the train finally arrived much had changed. The sunny skies w... (more)

The power for MRL's 840 local which runs from Helena to Logan Monday to Friday has the day off and is seen idling near the shops in Helena.

Along the Flathead River, Montana Rail Link’s gas local heads east on the Tenth Subdivision near Dixon, Montana, at McDonald on September 24, 2007.

MRL's 840 Local, with two SD70ACe's, passes what was once the small canyon town of Lombard, so named for Milwaukee Road predecessor Montana Railroad's Chief Engineer Arthur B. Lombard.

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MRL's 840 local (Helena to Logan) enters Lombard Canyon along the Missouri River with two ACe's for power.

The westbound Day Gas skirts along a mirror-like reflection pond just east of Plains, Montana on a clear summer morning.

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest (LM) curves through Lombard Canyon, Montana, on September 15, 2012. EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4308 and 4312 power the train.

Montana Rail Link's night Gas Local heads west out of Missoula past DeSmet, Montana, on May 9, 2010. DeSmet is the junction where MRL’s shorter Tenth Subdivision over Evaro Hill heads for Paradi... (more)

Heading into a setting sun, Montana Rail Link’s gas local is west of Perma, Montana, on September 15, 2010.

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight curves along the Little Blackfoot River between Avon and Garrison, Montana, on the nice spring day of May 6, 2012.

On September 23, 2009, Montana Rail link’s gas train crosses the Clark Fork and heads east on the Fourth Subdivision at Paradise, Montana.

Montana Rail link’s gas local rumbles through the curves just east of Perma, Montana, on September 27, 2007. Electro-Motive Division SD70ACe No. 4308 and older SD45 (MRL calls it a SD45-2) No. 3... (more)