MRL 4408 leads the Day Gas through Weeksville,MT.

MRL 4408 leads the Day Gas through Evaro Hill on its way to Missoula.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local switches Thompson River Lumber Company at Woodlin east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 24, 2013.

The SD60MACs that EMD painted for Burlington Northern were tested thoroughly, and the merits of A.C. traction burgeoned. BN signed a $675 million order for 350 4,000 hp A.C. traction SD70MACs from... (more)

Another favorite railroad has passed into the history books. As 2023 draws to a close so does the lease of the old Northern Pacific mainline through the Rockies by Montana Rail Link. One of the ne... (more)

As the sun sets on a beautiful summer day in the Montana mountains, a doubled-up BNSF empty coal and grain train glides eastbound preparing to descend the grade of Winston Hill on the east side of... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s office car special is cleaned by a contractor at the platforms by Missoula’s former Northern Pacific station before another trip on October 7, 2005. Dennis Washington, the ... (more)

HPASKCK in Lombard Canyon
An interesting locomotive consist pulls BNSF’s HPASKCK along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on September 12, 2010. ... (more)

Inside the Montana Rail Link’s headquarters building in Missoula, Montana, are the dispatchers that are keeping the railroad’s trains moving on October 7, 2005.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 No. 328 powers a westbound MRL work train through a cut between Eddy and Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 21, 2012.

With no trains to push over Marias Pass, two BNSF helper sets rest in the yard at Essex, Montana, on Christmas night in 2007. Merry Christmas everyone!

My brother Tom photographs a snowman that is seemingly waving to a westbound BNSF grain train grossing Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on a rainy January 26, 2020. On the cusp of snow was the w... (more)

Rainy weather has moved east at the end of the day on October 8, 2005, and the sun makes a brief appearance before dropping behind the mountains west of Helena, Montana, while Montana Rail Link EM... (more)

BNSF 4281 flies through Plains, MT with an empty coal train.