Heading out of Big Timber, Montana, beneath the Crazy Mountains on the morning of June 25, 2017, is an eastbound BNSF freight on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision.
Big Sky Country. Montana certainly lives up to its billing. Here the entire 77 car LM is visible as runs out its final miles in the prairie and farmlands before tackling the famed helper districts... (more)
Built 63 years apart, two SD70ACe's dwarf the ex CGW 120, now MRL 115, just as Crazy Mountains in the background dwarf the LM as it makes its way across the eastern end of the railroad between Big... (more)
MRL 317, an ex-SP SD45-2, is on the move at Big Timber after meeting an eastbound. The Mainstreet of the Northwest lineage of this route is evident with the NP-era searchlights and gantry.