Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local switches Thompson River Lumber Company at Woodlin east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 24, 2013.

The SD60MACs that EMD painted for Burlington Northern were tested thoroughly, and the merits of A.C. traction burgeoned. BN signed a $675 million order for 350 4,000 hp A.C. traction SD70MACs from... (more)

Santa Fe’s Q train out of Big Lift (Denver) utilizing Colorado’s Joint Line is about to cross the small trestle at mile 698.6 between Tomah and Larkspur, Colorado, on July 10, 1989. Santa Fe E... (more)

It looks and feels more like winter on April 15, 2013, in front of North Yard tower at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande facility in Denver, Colorado.

A Union Pacific fuel track employee trundles out into the heavily falling snow to his next assignment at UP’s North Yard locomotive facility on April 15, 2013.

Montana Rail Link’s office car special is cleaned by a contractor at the platforms by Missoula’s former Northern Pacific station before another trip on October 7, 2005. Dennis Washington, the ... (more)

HPASKCK in Lombard Canyon
An interesting locomotive consist pulls BNSF’s HPASKCK along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on September 12, 2010. ... (more)

Bandits
After a bankruptcy and long wait for a savior through merger, Milwaukee Road’s physical plant was not the best. This included the weathered paint on its locomotives. New owner ... (more)

Inside the Montana Rail Link’s headquarters building in Missoula, Montana, are the dispatchers that are keeping the railroad’s trains moving on October 7, 2005.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 No. 328 powers a westbound MRL work train through a cut between Eddy and Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 21, 2012.

On April 15, 2013, the Denver, Colorado, area received anywhere from 8 inches to over a foot of wet spring snow, and it’s still coming down as dusk begins to settle in on the fuel track at Union... (more)

With no trains to push over Marias Pass, two BNSF helper sets rest in the yard at Essex, Montana, on Christmas night in 2007. Merry Christmas everyone!

My brother Tom photographs a snowman that is seemingly waving to a westbound BNSF grain train grossing Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on a rainy January 26, 2020. On the cusp of snow was the w... (more)

A BNSF stack train makes good time up the westbound grade of Stevens Pass bound for Cascade Tunnel at Merritt, Washington, on February 20, 2017.

Rainy weather has moved east at the end of the day on October 8, 2005, and the sun makes a brief appearance before dropping behind the mountains west of Helena, Montana, while Montana Rail Link EM... (more)