"Passing Pipestone on Pipestone Pass" An MRL ballast train shoves up Pipestone Pass to Conda Mining, with the engines passing under an outcropping of pipestone.

The Bozeman local returns to it's home, but will first take the siding to work a lumber reload, passing under a soon to be replaced Northern Pacific RR cantilever signal.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local, the Helena local, returns from the cement plant at Montana City and is approaching East Helena, Montana on July 7, 2022. MRL EMD SD45 No. 355 and EMD GP9 No. 109 a... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 Nos. 127 and 109 switch their train at Thompson Falls, Montana, before heading back home to Paradise on January 24, 2013.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local has just made a run up to Harrison to pick up a pair of empty fertilizer cars from the Harrison Elevator and is now at Sappington, Montana, on June 27, 2023. The co... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train passes by on the main line while Montana Rail Link’s Helena local prepares to pick up a BNSF SD70ACe off the house track at Lombard, Montana, very late in the day o... (more)

Grain loads working up the grade to Muir, taking the route out of the yard around another train with motor issues.

Grain loads working up the grade to Muir.

With helpers up front, the "LM" arrives in Helena, where they will work the yard & head into Missoula.

The night gas curves through Arlee on MRL's Scenic 10th Subdivision.

Helpers on the head end will stay with the train into Missoula today.

Out of the storm
With the collapse and reconstruction of MRL’s Yellowstone River Bridge near Reed Point from June 24 to July 22, 2023, and the subsequent severing of a busy main line,... (more)

The Logan Local returning to Logan, MT with a pair of GP35's.

Montana Rail Link's Helena Local job pulls into the siding and approaches the signals at Louisville, Montana behind GP9 109 and SD45 355. The train will hold here for a westbound grain train to pa... (more)

With two cars gathered from the Harrison Elevator at the end of the 9.5-mile Harrison branch, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local trundles down the Fifth Subdivision main line at Sappington, Montana, ... (more)