MRL's Night Gas local crosses the Jocko River, a Flathead River tributary, in Ravalli. Picture taken from the Highway 200 overpass. The train runs pretty much daily leaving Missoula in the late af... (more)
The Montana Rail Link's Day Gas rolls around the bend behind a pair of SD70ACe's in Ravalli, Montana the morning after some fresh snowfall the night before.
Trotting West at 49MPH with a warrant to clear in the siding at Dixon, KCS 4817 leads a super-hot Boeing special over the stick rail of MRL's 10th Subdivision. Bi-directional running on the 10th i... (more)
Sprinting eastbound with Montana Rail Link’s day gas local, EMD SD40-2XR (SD40 rebuilt by Livingston Shops) No. 256 heads for Missoula between Dixon and Ravalli, Montana, on September 28, 2013.
A geometry train led by BNSF 8143 maintains track speed eastbound towards Missoula. We first saw this train (two cars and a unit) in Thompson Falls. For nearly 50 miles we followed it. Here on ... (more)