A Montana Rail link ballast train is slowly filled at the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. The railroad uses the former Butte main line now called the Spire Rock Industrial Tr... (more)

Montana Rail Link Day Gas at Dixon

Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 403 powers an eastbound BNSF passenger extra over Bridge 50 spanning the inlet of Big Beaver Creek into the Clark Fork east of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 18,... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4301 and 4311, power the road’s ML (Missoula to Laurel) freight through Bonita Tunnel on September 20, 2008. The tunnel is located at mile 94.6 just east of Bo... (more)

Switching the Harrison Elevator Co. is Montana Rail Link’s 844 local, and it is almost at the end-of-track on the branch as it noses across the U.S. Highway 287 grade crossing at Harrison, Monta... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local takes four tankcars to CHS’ Logan Petroleum Facility just outside town off the MRL’s Fifth Subdivision on October 10, 2023.

MRL 404 leads a short local through the small town of Willow Creek on it's way to Whitehall on MRL's 5th sub.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local makes its weekly trip up the Harrison branch with four covered hoppers for Harrison Elevator Co. on October 10, 2023. The train is powered by MRL EMD GP35 Nos. 404 ... (more)

MRL 4306 leads a westbound LM up the eastside of Mullan Pass. As you can see 4306 has seen plenty of tunnels as evidenced by the soot that covers her cab.

MRL 4402 helps a loaded coal train up the east side of Bozeman Pass through Muir and into Bozeman Tunnel.

MRL 4305 helps a loaded grain train up the east side of Bozeman Pass.

GP9's 125, 127 pull a Montana Rail Link local, past a semaphore in Saint Regis, Montana.

The Montana Rail Link yard at Logan, Montana, is busy on the morning of October 3, 2022. MRL’s 844 Logan local waits for a MRL Ballast train to clear before it can continue switching its own tra... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set is on the point of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe priority freight heading west over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on July 1, 2001. The train is crossing curv... (more)

A MRL Livingston Helper set sits at east Bozeman awaiting a westbound manifest train, before heading east back to Livingston