Montana Rail Link's "LM" cruises along the Yellowstone river near Springdale, MT with the Veterans unit leading the way.
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)
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)
The night gas crosses Fish Creek trestle Westbound on a rare run up the 4th Sub to Paradise
MRL's first Livingston helper set shoves on the rear of a westbound grain load as it passes Muir.
MRL's Day Gas is the third of four eastbounds on the Fourth Subdivision.
Extra power tied down just outside the Livingston yard.
SD45's pass each other...Helper 1 shoves hard on a coal load that is just about the crest the hill as Helper 2 waits in the siding at Muir for them to pass before dropping back down into Livingsto... (more)
With 125 loads of coal and 4 BNSF motors in Run 8, the Livingston Helpers give it all they have, with the oldest SDP40 in existence sandwiched between. In a few miles, the assault will be over and... (more)
MRL called this an "unmanned" helper leading H-KCKSPO out of the west portal on Bozeman Pass. The road crew picked up this set at Livingston and cut it off here at West End for the "... (more)