The Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line, completed in 1909, north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Cha... (more)

A diminutive Wisconsin Central shop switcher waits for the next move, which is likely moving WC EMD SD45 No. 6554, after it is thoroughly sandblasted down to bare metal before being painted in WCâ... (more)

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.

A low autumn sun just barely lights up a southbound Chicago & North Western freight, powered by a pair of Alco C628s, departing Butler Yard in Wisconsin on October 25, 1985.

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight, simply called the LM, waits at the end of double track just west of Livingston, Montana, on September 23, 2002. Road power of a pair of E... (more)

An eastbound coal load, led by Burlington Northern EMD SD60MAC No. 9500 along with a pair of newer BN/BNSF SD70MACs, slowly grinds upgrade toward the top of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska, on ... (more)

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)

Devastating flooding in Montana almost took out this bridge in June 2022. Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built this 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr passes Union Pacific’s MNYPV (North Yard in Denver to Provo, Utah) freight in a March snowstorm at East Portal, Colorado, on March 24, 2007. The lead unit ... (more)

A barn and another outbuilding are still standing at an abandoned homestead and ranch that was once part of a tiny community known as Weed, located above Austin, Montana. Weed is still a place nam... (more)

Inside Wisconsin Central’s car shop at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is a Soo Line boxcar that is being prepped for WC paint, along with freshly-painted EMD SD45 No. 6532 getting some finishing ... (more)

Normally arriving at Sandpoint, Idaho, at 2:20 a.m., Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder scurries through Algoma approaching Sandpoint a bit off the advertised at 10:10 a.m. on February 2, 2023. A... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD60Ms lays over in the Soo Line’s locomotive facility at Portage, Wisconsin, in a view from the cab of Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 357 leading the eastbound Empire Bu... (more)

Trains on both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific pass each other with the Thompson River between them on September 24, 2015. The westbound CP grain train approaches the depths of Black Canyon... (more)