An eastbound BNSF stack train approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on May 22, 2011. Low clouds still hang over the mountains to the west, as three GE C44-9Ws rumble along the Clark Fork.

A touch of fog lingers in the air as the blue light of dusk bathes the causeway between the Clark Fork River and Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana. A westbound BNSF MLAUPAS freight appro... (more)

A couple of fisherman in a boat try their luck in the waters below Bridge 57 over the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, late in the afternoon of September 20, 2012. A pair of former Burling... (more)

Trout Creek reflections
The last rays of sun on September 16, 2011, illuminate a westbound BNSF coal train on the Montana Rail Link at Trout Creek, Montana. We were fishing when we hear... (more)

Frog Pond is almost, but not completely frozen over. A small creek coming down the mountainside has left an opening in the ice, providing a nice spot to see through the clear (but very cold) water... (more)

Passing frozen waters of the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, an eastbound BNSF coal train is led by three GEs (ES44DC No. 7631 leading two ES44ACs) on January 26, 2013. The low fog is hav... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight passes over the deck bridge over Trout Creek at Trout Creek, Montana, on a snowy January 26, 2013. Besides the ever-present GE C44-9Ws represented by the lead pair, also i... (more)

A BNSF coal train crosses the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on a pleasant September 16, 2011, on the scenic Fourth Subdivision of Montana Rail Link.

Trout through the ice
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train cruises by Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2013. Not long before the arrival of this train, the young dau... (more)

A westbound BNSF stack train skirts the clear and cold Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana. The pond was mostly frozen over, but it did have a few holes of open water like this.

An eastbound BNSF empty grain train rolls across the bridge near milepost 55 on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision just west of Trout Creek, Montana. Lucky for us, the sun broke out shortly befor... (more)

On September 22, 2006, an empty coal train from Centralia, Washington, crosses Montana Rail Link's Bridge 55 just west of Trout Creek. I think this is the only time I've ever seen a four set of Oa... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Trout Creek, Montana, late in the day of May 22, 2011. The grass is green, but there is still a bit of snow in the higher elevations on this great spring... (more)

Most of the time, you have a mostly clear day, and you get a cloud. Occasionally, you get lucky with the opposite. Here an eastbound coal train from Centralia, Washington, rolls along what they ca... (more)

It’s after sunset on September 15, 2011, as a BNSF grain train passes through Trout Creek, Montana, under a sky full of pastel colors. A GE C44-9W/ES44DC combo powers the train up front, while a... (more)