In the last few weeks, Montana Rail Link has been doing some housecleaning before the BNSF takeover at the end of the year. Several locomotives were scrapped at Livingston, including EMD SD45 Nos.... (more)

Sprinting toward Duplainville
A pair of Milwaukee Road GP40s sprints Soo Line train 211 westbound toward Springdale Road grade crossing just east of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a hazy A... (more)

A young daughter of one of the residents of Trout Creek, Montana, tries her luck at ice fishing on Frog Pond along the Clark Fork on January 25, 2013. Rumbling along between the two over a frozen ... (more)

Conrail EMD GP40-2 No. 3378 leads an eastbound CR freight out of Gallitzin Tunnel at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, on October 23, 1988. In 1995, the Gallitzin Tunnel was abandoned in favor of an adjoin... (more)

Santa Fe run-through power, led by AT&SF GE B23-7 No. 6370, pulls Conrail’s ELSF freight into a lowering sun at New Carlisle, Indiana, on September 10, 1988.

The rains of springtime have greened up the Badlands of North Dakota, as an eastbound BNSF coal train snakes through through the curves at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

A southbound Iowa Northern Railway freight, led by EMD GP38-2 No. 3800, rolls through Greene, Iowa, on May 21, 2014.

On May 7, 2012, several veteran Montana Rail Link locomotives were stored inside one of the older shop buildings at the railroad’s main locomotive facility at Livingston, Montana, including MRL ... (more)

The late afternoon sun makes a brief appearance on an otherwise rainy day at Helena, Montana, on October 8, 2005. Two Montana Rail Link machinists at the “roundhouse” talk briefly while mainta... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR Nos. 252 and 252 power the railroad’s Helena local eastbound out of Trident, Montana, on September 14, 2010.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1988, a westbound Santa Fe piggyback train storms through Edelstein, Illinois, after climbing the hill out of Chillicothe, Illinois.

Powered by four BNSF GE locomotives, an eastbound BNSF freight works upgrade approaching Tunnel 2 just west of the siding at Bealville, California, on the afternoon of February 26, 2016.

Warning devises abound on the prow of VIA Rail’s EMD F40PH-3 No. 6451 at Jasper, Alberta, on July 13, 2013. Two sets of horns, headlights and a warning light help keep VIA Rail passenger trains ... (more)

Montana Rail link’s gas local rolls through the curves approaching milepost 50 just east of Perma, Montana, on September 27, 2007. MRL EMD SD70ACe No. 4308 and SD45 No. 355 power the eastbound t... (more)

Five Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives roar loudly through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Eastern Railway interchange at Clifton, Arizona... (more)