MRL's Helena local accelerates towards the yard in East Helena after making it's pick-up off the Montana City branch on the return trip from Townsend.

MRL's "LM" waits at Tobin (West Helena) as an EB BNSF approaches Helena.

An icon to Montana, and hard to find around the country, one of the last straight SD45s rumbles up the MRL Montana City Branch with a few cars of concrete for Helena. Paired up with the 355 is the... (more)

Right at sunset, a BNSF GEVO leads an Eastbound freight into Helena at the Birdseye Road crossing on the Montana Rail Link

After helping a BNSF westbound train over the steep grades of Mullan Pass, a standard helper set comprised of a quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes, arrives at their home base of Helena, Mon... (more)

Rolling over Prickly Pear Creek, this is one of, if not the only, spots on the MRL where former NP 210 (MRL 109) is not on home rails. This is the 4.8 mile former Great Northern line from Helena t... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train sits with its head end just short of Head Lane west of Helena, Montana, late in the day of July 5, 2001. Two sets of helpers are being added to the “heavy” down at ... (more)

Westbound freight climbs towards Mullan Pass east of Austin.

Westbound freight climbs the grade out of Helena.

A Puget Sound and Pacific grain train from Hastings, NE and destined for Aberdeen, WA was traversing the Montana Rail Link just below Mullan Pass at a place known as the Austin Curves. The train... (more)

A dog peers up the steps of a locomotive in a consist of a outbound train waiting for a crew to go west over Mullan Pass at Helena, Montana, on February 7, 1997. He was persistent, going from loco... (more)

BNSF 6159 leads a westbound Laural-Pasco under dark late afternoon sky's as it heads towards Mullen Pass.

A rain storm has just cleared at Montana Rail Link’s “roundhouse” at Helena yard on October 8, 2005. Just off the turntable, EMD F45 No. 392 faces new SD70ACe No. 4300 in the last sun rays o... (more)

Former Wisconsin & Southern F45 No. 1002, now Montana Rail Link No. 392, leads a helper set into Helena, Montana, after pushing a train over Mullan Pass on July 4, 1994. Before a short life on WSO... (more)