A visitor from south of the border and a sister from the East Coast look a bit out of place in the winter wonderland that is the west slope of Marias Pass on BNSF's Hi-Line Sub. Regardless, the t... (more)

My first visit to the ex GN Mainline yielded cloudy skies, obscured mountains, snow squalls, and below zero temps....but lots of trains....so I'm not complaining. After chasing an eastbound from ... (more)

It's 4:30 PM on Christmas Eve, and traffic has been slow on the former Great Northern Mainline as BNSF has tied down as many trains as possible. However, this westbound autorack job is still burn... (more)

The switch broom on the nose appears to be hanging on for dear life as this hot Z-train clips west past the west end of the siding at Coram, MT. It's been a long, cold, snowy trip from Havre, MT ... (more)

So as I pulled up to the former Great Northern depot I was surprised to see that some local caretaker was thoughtful enough to provide a train update on the chalk board hung outside the waiting ro... (more)

Having paused at Browning to pick up the two autoracks on the headpin, this westbound manifest is pushing it's way through the fierce blowing snow and below zero temps. Having crested the small s... (more)

A pair of GP38s lead the "Mountain Work Train" back into the east end of the compact little Essex Yard after running over the divide and down to Browning to pick up single air dump. This job is t... (more)

It's two degrees at the crest of the continent in northern Montana, and this stranger from south of the border surely never feels temperatures like these on her home road. Nevertheless she and a ... (more)

Thanks to the recomendation of my friend and fellow RPN poster Frank Keller, I decided to chase this stack train east from the Hwy 98/US Rte 2 junction in Browning to Cut Bank even though my ultim... (more)

Merry Christmas from the Izaak Walton Inn The helpers idle outside awaiting their next call to duty in just about two hours. The Inn is decorated merrily for the holiday and these two bears sit... (more)

It's cold, real cold, in Browning, MT, but that's not enough to keep the BNSF from going about it's duties. Here a westbound freight has taken the siding and cut off from it's train to pull west ... (more)

Lunch in style! As a Thank You to the operating department for a successful year and a lot of hard work on everyone's part to improve the railroad's performance, the ARR had an all day catered lu... (more)

The snow is blowing fiercely and the temperature is NEGATIVE nine degrees, which may explain why this crew was heard on the radio trying to talk the dispatcher out of stopping at Browning for a pi... (more)

The disinterested passengers on the northbound platform don't give more than a second glance to express train 2107 that's clipping by on the center track. Over on the southbound platform a MARC t... (more)

It's a beautiful indian summer afternoon in south central New Hampshire. The Milford-Bennington's little shuttle train is done for the day and is seen tied up at the Granite State Concrete, Co.'s... (more)