MRL SD70ACe 4405 heads into the final sunrays of the day, approaching the terminal at Pipeline with 1 buffer and 14 tank cars.

Winter in Montana can be brutal, and during one of these bitter cold days, a Montana Rail Link section crew digs out a switch serving Thompson River Lumber before MRL’s Paradise local arrives to... (more)

Westbound Gas Train switching Thompson River Lumber shortly before sunset.

The Gas Train is switching Thompson River Lumber at T-Falls late in the afternoon.

The crew is starting to make up their train in the crisp clear early morning light.

An eastbound BNSF train speeds over a local grade crossing.

The Day Gas skirts the banks of the Clark Fork River not long after departing Thompson Falls. In the five previous trips I'd taken to the MRL, this was my first time exploring much of the line wes... (more)

The "Day Gas" has just left Thompson Falls and accelerates along the Clark Fork river near Eddy on the return trip to Missoula.

The "night gas" arrives into Thompson Falls for the twice daily job dropping off tanks at the fuel facility at Pipeline.

Montana Rail Link's Day Gas local heads east along the Clark Fork River at Eddy.

Skating along the Clark Fork River in northwest Montana, MRLs famous day gas train begins its eastward trek for Missoula, with the normal ‘06 & ‘08 up front.

The Montana Rail Link's Day Gas is on the move as it departs from Thompson Falls, Montana and rolls along the bank of the Clark Fork River, crossing over the Thompson River as it begins its journe... (more)

BNSF ES44C4 7963 leads a grain train east on MRL's 4th Sub along the shores of the Clark Fork.

After spotting loaded tanks at Pipeline seen in the background, MRL SD70ACes 4303 and 4306 are departing for Missoula with the empties.

BNSF ES44C4 No. 6517 leads a westbound unit coal train over the Clark Fork just west of Thompson Falls, Montana, on October 3, 2021.