With three EMD F9's, Northern Pacific's westbound flagship "North Coast Limited," Train 25, ascends the east side of 6,356-ft. Homestake Pass near Whitehall, Montana. Next stop is Butte.

Northern Pacific #7012A, now owned by the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, joined Polson Logging Co. #70 on an excursion to Tacoma for the opening of the LeMay Auto Museum. Here the locomotive is seen... (more)

Main Street of the Northwest With a close look one finds the original heritage of this 1958 built mechanical reefer which now finds itself amongst other relics found at the more)

Same color! A late-1940s Ford pickup encounters NP veteran GP7 switching the Yakima Local at a sawmill in Ronald. Note tailings pile at right, a reminder of coal mines that powered NP steam locomo... (more)

One of the most popular passenger paint schemes, Northern Pacific's "North Coast Limited" Train 25 negotiates Homestake Pass in Montana, westbound on April 10, 1970. Butte will be the next stop, ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 840 Local is heading back to Helena, Montana, as it rolls through Lombard. Part of the hillside in the background came down and blocked the Northern Pacific main during the 6... (more)

BNSF 6329 Screams against gravity as it lifts a coal load around the Upper Austin Loop. Mullan Pass is the 2.2% ruling westward grade in Montana on the the former Northern Pacific mainline. The f... (more)

A set of Northern Pacific power and psgr cars is leaving the GN station just after the merger. Unit number is a BN number.

Stormy skys near Pipestone (siding) , Montana. Homestake Pass was Northern pacific's direct main into Butte, Montana. The line was built to expedite passenger and coal traffic into Butte. The coal... (more)

NP #7012A leads the second excursion of the day down the Tacoma Hill. The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad brought #7012 and Polson #70 to Tacoma to celebrate the grand opening of the LeMay Auto Muse... (more)

A full moon illuminates an old rusty car and what's left of Lombard, Montana, as a BNSF coal train rolls east. Lombard is where Milwaukee Road's Pacific Extension crossed the Northern Pacific's ma... (more)

On a beautiful summer's morning, a westbound BN manifest takes the bridge across Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint. On the point are an ex-NP U33C and C&S SD40-2, the former with its distinctive red ... (more)

For the first time in nearly a year, Montana Rail Link dispatched a local down the former Northern Pacific Darby Branch, south of Missoula. The line had been shut down in June 2011 after fl... (more)

An ex BN MAC leads a newer GEVO across a small creek East of Miles City, on the ex NP.

Still looking pretty good in it's Ex NP paint(except for a mismatched battery box door) BN 5667 suns itself at Daytons Bluff. The U25/28C's spent a good amount of their time in coal service after ... (more)