Clouds rise on the afternoon of January 27, 2020, at Trout Creek, Montana, revealing fresh snow dusting the distant mountain ridge. Rain has just let up, letting the open water of Frog Pond to set... (more)

The “blue hour” is turning to night at a frozen Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2020. As a light rain falls on the moisture-laden snow, fog forms off the open water... (more)

A light rain and fog encompass a BNSF manifest freight as it heads west out of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2020.

A BNSF coal train passes a reflective Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, while traveling westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on the pretty fall day of October 14, 2019.

An empty oil train led by CREX 1426 slows to cross the Clark Fork near Trout Creek, MT on Oct. 13, 2018. The train is on Montana Rail Link with empties from a Pacific Northwest Refinery returning ... (more)

A westbound manifest rumbles across the frozen Noxon Reservoir on a blustery January afternoon. This location is a popular ice fishing spot, and with a close look you can see numerous fishing bor... (more)

An empty oil train rolls east on the causeway along the Clark Fork near Trout Creek, MT on Montana Rail Link. Powered by BNSF units, this pair are doing DPU duty on a beautiful February day.

Toward the end of another pretty autumn day in Montana, an eastbound BNSF grain empty passes Frog Pond at Trout Creek on October 14, 2019.

On the afternoon of October 14, 2019, a BNSF coal train passes a very reflective Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, while traveling westbound on Montana Rail Link.

On the morning of September 26, 2008, a westbound BNSF coal train rumbles through Trout Creek, Montana. Fog is about burned off for the day, but the calm, warmer waters of Frog Pond are still send... (more)

BNSF 6018 leads an eastbound empty coal train across the causeway along the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT on Montana Rail Link's mainline.

A BNSF coal train heading west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision passes a frozen landscape at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 6, 2016.

Clouds fill the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a lowly westbound BNSF ballast train crosses the causeway past a reflective frog pond on May 9, 2010.

Get the shot first—then dig the car out
The DPU of a BNSF coal train pushes the hoppers westbound off the causeway west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 2, 2019. We’re waiting fo... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train rumbles through a damp Clark Fork River Valley just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 2, 2019. Temperatures are getting the snowpack slushy, causing our rental ... (more)