It’s October 10, 2023, at 6:15 p.m. and the last rays of sun are shaped by a mountain ridge to the southwest as the lead locomotive of a BNSF coal train momentarily gets illuminated by golden li... (more)
Passing two horses and a resting longhorn on its way to switching customers on the Fifth Subdivision, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local clatters through Three Forks, Montana, on October 11, 2023. Lo... (more)
Montana Rail Link’s LM departed Livingston, Montana, on the afternoon of September 23, 2002, but soon came to a halt at the end of double track just west of town. The train is ready to attack Bo... (more)
Rolling through the picturesque Jefferson River Canyon, one of what's likely to be the final MRL ballast trains is dwarfed by a massive cavern, part of the Lewis and Clark Cavern State Park. Truly... (more)
Fifteen miles from the border of Idaho, situated along the Clark Fork River, lies the small village of Noxon, Montana. Montana Rail Link's former Northern Pacific mainline passes through here and ... (more)