An westbound grain train navigates the Two Medicine River trestle with the crew looking more like pilots than engineers. It’s led by quite an unruly set of power with the GE on the point given a... (more)

An Eastbound grain train crosses Fish Creek trestle on MRL’s 4th sub West of Missoula

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses the Clark Fork River at Noxon,MT on MRL's 4th Subdivision.

A loaded coal train heads north through the Crow Indian reservation in southeast Montana.

After a long walk up to the trestle, it took a couple of minutes for the train to reach the bridge. You could hear the train grinding up the hill quite well, but it took it a bit to show its face.... (more)

A westbound oil train near Plains, MT

A westbound manifest rumbles across the frozen Noxon Reservoir on a blustery January afternoon. This location is a popular ice fishing spot, and with a close look you can see numerous fishing bor... (more)

Burlington Northern SD40-2 No. 7157 and Norfolk Southern SD40 No. 1595 lead a westbound grain train up Mullan Pass over Greenhorn Trestle between Weed and Skyline, Montana on October 3, 1997.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Helena Turn returns northbound to Great Falls north (railroad east) of Sieben, Montana, on September 5, 1998. The train is powered by five EMD 4-axle units, led by... (more)

Standing 222 feet above the gulch below and spanning 796 feet, Marent Trestle is truly a sight to behold. When a 150-man work force completed the trestle in 1883, it was the highest structure on t... (more)

Greenhorn Trestle
Burlington Northern First 196, led by EMD GP50 No. 3147, arcs over curved Greenhorn Trestle while dropping downgrade on Mullan Pass between Skyline and Weed, Montana, o... (more)

A BNSF empty grain shuttle rolls across the Clark Fork at the bridge at MP 57 near Trout Creek, MT between sun breaks and snow showers on Montana Rail Link.

An eastbound BNSF stack train rumbles across Bridge 57 over the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on May 20, 2011.

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 391 leads ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest freight) over the Clark Fork bridge at Bonner, Montana, on September 2, 2003.

At the end of a warm summer weekend, the westbound LM arrives in Missoula after its run from Laurel.