Helpers returning to Helena through Austin for their next push over Mullan Pass.
This heavy BNSF grain train departs Helena around 5 pm on this sunny spring afternoon. The MRL had to add help for this train with adding two sets of helpers. The first set was two SD70ACe along w... (more)
Living on borrowed time - two flares, an F45 and an SD9 lead the Missoula-Laurel manifest downgrade over the Skyline Trestle, below the summit at Blossburg. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia slide... (more)
A WB grain train waits for a new crew in Helena, Mt, as GP-9 106 trundles around the yard, doing it's chores. A typical afternoon T-Storm is building to the east of town.
MRL 4310-4304 stepped along briskly with the Laurel to Missoula, MT, train. Fires and dry conditions prompted MRL to blade fire break along their right of way.
The LM Laurel-Missoula freight drills out shop cars at dusk, 9:15pm.
MRL115 and 112 east of East Helena on the 840 Helena Local
A very lightly loaded Helena Local at East Helena on Sunday 24th July
