A westbound loaded unit oil train negotiates the 10 degree curves on the approach to Skyline Trestle. The train is passing thru the rock outcropping that is signature feature on Mullan Pass.
A BNSF coal train makes it way over Skyline Trestle through what appears to be a sea of green adjacent to the Continental Divide. The haze featured in this photo is most likely thanks to a fire th... (more)
A clean BNSF SD70ACE leads a heavy westbound coal train up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass. Greenhorn Gulch was part of the gold rush that built Montana. It is said that a large gold nugget was foun... (more)
An eastbound BNSF oil train drops downgrade on Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on the afternoon of June 28, 2017. The rear DPUs are passing through Skyline, while the head end is on the other... (more)
Descending the steep 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass is an eastbound BNSF oil train at Skyline, Montana, on June 28, 2017.
Four Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes add some mountain-climbing muscle as a manned helper set cut in the middle of a westbound BNSF freight as they cross Skyline Trestle just west of Skyline, Monta... (more)
A westbound BNSF manifest freight curves over Skyline Trestle (also known as Austin Creek Trestle) on the climb up Mullan Pass at Skyline, Montana, on the afternoon of June 29, 2017.
Montana Rail Link SD40-2XR No. 259 powers a “Jimbo” work train that has cleared for a westbound freight in Skyline siding on the east slope of Mullan Pass in Montana on June 29, 2016. No. 259 ... (more)
Santa Fe EMD SD40-2 No. 5056 leads a westbound Burlington Northern grain train over the curved Austin Creek Trestle (a.k.a. Skyline Trestle) west of Skyline, Montana, on September 11, 1995. BN pow... (more)
An eastbound BNSF train on the MRL is drowning down grade from the Continental Divide at Blossburg on Mullan Pass. The train is seen here after just crossing over Greenhorn Trestle just down from ... (more)
An empty BNSF coal train descends Mulllan Pass as it passes the siding at Skyline, Montana on the MRL's 3rd Subdivision.
Climbing the grade on Mullan Pass, the sand is flying as an SD70MAC shoves hard on the rear of a BNSF grain train as it passes the siding at Skyline, Montana on the MRL's 3rd Subdivision.
An eastbound empty grain train is heading downgrade as it rolls across on Skyline trestle on the MRL's 3rd Subdivision up on Mullan Pass.
Heaving its way up the grade, an export coal gives it all its got on the climb up Mullan Pass.
Two GEs lead an eastbound across Skyline trestle on Mullan Pass.