Two shiny MRL SD70ACes, on the point of an eastbound Missoula-Laurel manifest freight, wait for a new crew in the siding at Elliston on a sunny October afternoon.
The first of two mountain grades has been conquered for this Laurel to Missoula manifest freight as it eases out of the tunnel on the top of Bozeman Pass.
Autumn color abounds along Montana’s Gallatin River as Montana Rail Link’s MMISLAU (Missoula to Laurel manifest) freight approaches Logan on September 27, 2014.
Sprinting along U.S. Highway 287 south of Townsend, Montana, is eastbound Montana Rail Link MMISLAU (Missoula to Laurel manifest) powered by brutish EMD SD70ACes Nos. 4403 and 4402 on a very rainy... (more)
The famous Montana Rail Link gas train now usually contains lumber cars ever since the Paradise local was abolished. The local out of Paradise use to handle these duties but a slow down in the lum... (more)