An all-to-common engineroom fire has also damaged paint and logos on the side of BNSF GE C44-9W No. 4465, seen in the locomotive consist on an eastbound BNSF Q train running through Hope, Idaho, o... (more)

A westbound BNSF Q train crosses Bridge 55 over the icy Trout Creek inlet into the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 12, 2024. The westbound train is operating on former Montana Rail... (more)

The gates to Harrison
Montana Rail Link’s 9.5-mile branch to Harrison out of Sappington was a bit like stepping into a railroad time warp. Jointed rail winding through idyllic ranch co... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight rolls through Weeksville between Thompson Falls and Plains, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision on February 6, 2022.

Crossing Coyote Basin
Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train from Deserado Mine near Rangley, Colorado, to the power plant in Bonanza, Utah, crosses remote and stark Coyote Basin... (more)

Marching into Van Dyne
With a light pall of exhaust laying down over the power, Soo Line train 19 marches into Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the sunny, late afternoon of August 2, 1987. Powere... (more)

Led by BNSF GE ES44AC No. 6177, a westbound BNSF coal train crosses the Clark Fork at Noxon, Montana on February 13, 2024. This scenic Montana Rail Link main line is now BNSF’s MRL Subdivision o... (more)

New Conrail GE B40-8 No. 5088 leads a westbound CR freight into a setting sun at New Carlisle, Indiana, at 5:45 p.m. on September 10, 1988.

During the bridge rebuild at Reed Point that severed Montana Rail Link’s main line from June 24 to July 22, 2023, the railroad operated several different turns and the usual locals to serve thei... (more)

It’s a gray wintery day as an empty coal train off the MKT heads east off the former Frisco main line after skirting MKT’s Glen Park Yard, and is now approaching the Burlington Northern crossi... (more)

On a bleak winter-like day, an empty coal train off the MKT heads east on the former Frisco main line after skirting Frisco’s abandoned Rosedale Yard, and is now approaching the Katy’s Glen Pa... (more)

BNSF’s HLAUDEN priority freight rolls through Wyoming’s scenic Wind River Canyon between the sidings of Minnesela and Dornick on June 25, 2023.

Montana Rail Link’s day gas local, returning to Missoula from Pipeline at Thompson Falls, follows the Clark Fork eastbound through Weeksville, Montana, on February 7, 2022.

Powered by a quintet of EMD GP60-series locomotives—with GP60M-3 No. 108 leading GP60B Nos. 341 and 339, followed by GP60M-3 Nos. 104 and 123—BNSF’s Chewelah Turn makes its way through Loon ... (more)

Burlington Northern Expediter train 42 crosses the Rock River and curves away from Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989. I know, the weather is crappy and it’s “stick” season in the Midwest�... (more)