MRL 250 is leading the Laurel to Bozeman Turn as it races out of Big Timber. The following week, the LAULAU would be abolished and now all the traffic gets picked up and dropped off via the ML and... (more)

Thunder at Iron Ridge
A westbound BNSF coal train thunders through Iron Ridge cut between Austin and Weed, Montana, climbing Mullan Pass on the afternoon of July 6, 2022. The train is n... (more)

Just after sunset on July 5, 2023, Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4302 and 4301 power a Helena to Bozeman turn dropping downgrade past milepost 214 east of Winston, Montana.

With th... (more)

MRL 4402 leads the ML up Bozeman Pass on the evening of June 20th. Usually helper sets on Bozeman are on the back of trains, so to see one on point was a nice surprise.

An MRL helper set pushes a westbound mixed freight up Bozeman Pass in the late evening. The train has just begun the climb to the tunnel out of Livingston, Montana.

MRL 250 blasts out of Bozeman tunnel.

The engineer of the Missoula to Laurel manifest is throttling up the 4404 and 262 as they prepare to climb Mullan Pass.

MRL's counterpart manifests, being the ML and LM, meet in the evening at West Logan.

The Montana Rail Link's "Bozeman Bullet" descends Bozeman Pass during the final hours of light with 355 on the point.

MRL 250 exits Bozeman tunnel on a a fine summer evening.

Bozeman turn over the top
Led by SD45 No. 355, Montana Rail Link’s Bozeman turn descends Bozeman Pass at West End, Montana, on a rainy afternoon of July 2, 2019.

Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (more)

A set of MRL Helpers head light powered back to Livingston under a stormy sky.

Daytime work windows for Montana Rail Link track gangs have made Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, a busy place late in the afternoon, as trains waiting out the curfew begin to move. As a westb... (more)

SPOLAU with a considerable assist into Livingston.