A quartet of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe helpers return from Elliston, MT to Helena after moving a westbound unit grain train over Mullan Pass (cut-in mid-train). Herds of cattle are not an uncommon... (more)
On the afternoon of July 7, 2023, Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4318 and 4404 pull a Helena to Bozeman turn westbound past the old Milwaukee Road bridge spanning the Missouri River at Lombard... (more)
A Montana Rail Link helper set arrives at Helena Yard on July 1, 2020. Quite a few blue MRL locomotives are present—three helper sets, the Helena local power and MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freig... (more)
The morning sun shines on a pair of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's as they emerge from the Jefferson River Canyon in Cardwell, Montana on a frigid March morning. An MRL Whitehall Extra crew has a tra... (more)
A set of four Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe locomotives being used as a manned helper is cut about two-thirds back in a westbound BNSF manifest freight climbing Mullan Pass out of Austin, Montana,... (more)
After helping to a westbound BNSF train over the steep 2.2% grades of Mullan Pass, a Montana Rail Link helper set of four EMD SD70ACe locomotives drop downgrade through Iron Ridge cut between Weed... (more)
