The last active MRL SD45 leads the Helena Local up hill at Winston at last light.
Montana Rail Link GP9 #109 & SD40-2XR #252 highball towards Helena with a short train in tow
Montana Rail Link GP9 #109 leads the Helena local west by the searchlights at Winston,MT.
On June 30, the Helena Local got a real late start, not arriving at Townsend until sunset. My friend Dave Gayer and I were returning from Lombard thinking we might get lucky and see the train our ... (more)
Montana Rail Link's Helena Local reaches the top of Winston Hill under threatening skies just after sunset. It will roll past a waiting eastbound empty coke train then continue on to Helena to end... (more)
Montana is big sky country, but not always big sky blue. Thunder clouds and the Montana landscape show the insignificance of the Helena Local in the scheme of things as it climbs Winston Hill with... (more)
The Helena Local was enjoying the last sunlight of the day as it dent around the curve out of Lombard Canyon and rolled through Tosten on its way back to Helena, MT. It was following a westbound f... (more)
After fighting cloud screws, more mainline freights, swallows and bugs, the Helena Local makes its way along the Gallatin River at the confluence with the Missouri at Trident, MT, finally with MRL... (more)
After switching at Townsend, the Helena local met several freight trains en route to Trident, MT where it would switch cars at the cement plant. Here the train glides along the banks of the Missou... (more)
This every day local switching talc cars at Lime near Townsend, MT was nothing abnormal except for trailing unit, MRL 382, the last operating SD45 on Montana Rail Link. The Helena Local, a turn fr... (more)
The returning Helena Local begins the westbound climb of Winston Hill after crossing the Missouri River just outside Townsend, Montana. This local works to Logan and then west up the 5th Sub to e... (more)
Just after sunrise, MRL's "Helena Local" passing through Lombard Canyon along the banks of the Missouri River on its way to Three Forks, MT.
