The frog pond near Trout Creek made for a nice late afternoon reflection as an MRL westbound manifest freight cruised west on the causeway just west of Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork.

Late afternoon sun and warm temperatures made for a pleasant setting for a BNSF westbound grain train traveling over Trout Creek at MP 55 on Montana Rail Link. Next stop Hauser, ID on BNSF.

An eastbound BNSF freight reflects the colors of a setting sun on October 3, 2016, while passing the tranquil waters of Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana.

Under cloudy skies, a westbound BNSF freight crosses the causeway between the Clark Fork and Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on October 1, 2016.

CREX 1427 breaks out of the fog and into the sun at Montana Rail Link's bridge 57 over the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, MT on an eastbound empty grain train.

BNSF 5775 assists a coal train west as a DPU on Montana Rail Link at the causeway along the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, MT.

On May 5, 2012, an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses Bridge 55 over the clear waters of Trout Creek west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

BNSF red and silver no. 754 leads a westbound manifest freight on Montana Rail Link across the bridge at MP 55 over Trout Creek with the Clark Fork in the background.

Final sunlight for the day held on long enough to allow the capture of a westbound coal train on Montana Rail Link at the frog pond just west of Trout Creek, MT. A pleasant way to wrap up a day of... (more)

Thin ice is cracking and sinking into the cold waters of the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana, as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses Bridge 55 on February 6, 2016.

CREX 1427 leads a BNSF empty grain train east across the large through truss bridge at MP 57 on the Montana Rail Link near Trout Creek, MT. The chilly morning has produced a fog bank along the riv... (more)

BNSF 6246 and 9560 roll an empty coal train east on the Montana Rail Link at the causeway west of Trout Creek MT. After a day of clear weather, a front has moved in, but everything is calm as seen... (more)

BNSF 8273 rolls east across the causeway along the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT with a manifest freight on Montana Rail Link in late afternoon/early evening light.

A BNSF coal train flies westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the cold winter morning of February 10, 2014.

Early morning fog is still burning off on October 3, 2016, as an eastbound BNSF grain train curves toward Trout Creek, Montana.