In a wintery setting along Montana’s Clark Fork, a BNSF grain train heads west toward Spokane over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Trout Creek on February 4, 2023.

The view from the windows of our Airbnb accommodation at Trout Creek, Montana, allowed us to at least see and keep tabs of the passing BNSF trains on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision. From... (more)

An eastbound BNSF unit oil train crosses the icy inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 3, 2023.

A couple does some ice fishing on a mostly frozen Clark Fork as a westbound BNSF coal train crosses Bridge 57 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 3, 2023.

Led by BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3944 is a westbound coal train bound for Roberts Bank, B.C., passing through a wintery scene at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 3, 2023.

A Montana Rail Link work train distributing ties is safely in the clear in the siding at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF grain train rolls by westbound on February 6, 2023. Blue MRL wide-vision ca... (more)

Another winter day comes to a close as a BNSF grain train rolls west on Montana Rail Link’s main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 4, 2023.

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight passes through a wintery scene at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2023. Behind the BNSF r... (more)

Carrying a load of three Boeing 737 fuselages mounted on flat cars, along with three additional flat cars used as spacers for the oversize loads, is a westbound BNSF J train hurrying through Trout... (more)

At Trout Creek, Montana, thick ice is cracking and heaving with fluctuating water levels at the frozen inlet of Trout Creek where it flows into the Clark Fork. Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivi... (more)

In my mind, there’s hardly anything better than a few beers around a campfire on a crisp, snowy Montana evening along the Clark Fork and Montana Rail Link’s busy Fourth Subdivision. Friends Da... (more)

Another wintery day in Montana is coming to a close as layers of fog roll through Montana’s Clark Fork River Valley. As the blue hour approaches, a BNSF grain train rumbles westbound out of Trou... (more)

Rolling west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF unit oil train at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2023.

Led by a pair of GE C44-9Ws, a westbound BNSF oil train lays down its reflection in Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the stormy-looking afternoon of October 13, 2017.

On windless Montana afternoon, BNSF 5000 leads a westbound Q train that comprised just 6 Boeing 737 fuselages along the Clark Fork River near Trout Creek, MT. Taken on Oct 2, 2022