SD40-2s in the Southern Interior: A pair of Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2s roll along Columbia Lake on the Windermere Subdivision on Oct. 11, 2014. What was once the domaine of Fairbanks ... (more)

Greenhorn Trestle:Two of Montana Rail Link's new SD70ACes, Nos. 4401 and 4400, lead the westbound LM across Greenhorn Trestle on the Mullan Pass grade on Oct. 4, 2014. Three more SD70ACes a... (more)

Clash of Seasons: Sometimes the weather in Montana can be just downright absurd. Take for example this image, taken on Sept. 13, a full 10 days before summer is officially over, of an eastb... (more)

Flares Down the Fourth: With sets of SD45-2s running on a railroad that hasn't changed much since the 1970s (Note the Northern Pacific cantilever signal and telegraph wires) it's easy to se... (more)

Flares Down the Fourth: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s leads a BNSF Railway manifest freight down the Fourth Subdivision near Paradise, Montana on Sept. 6, 2015. The SD45-2s have been ... (more)

The Northwest: While a big chunk of Montana is part of the Great Plains, the state's geography takes on a much different personality west of the Continental Divide. Northwest Montana, espec... (more)

Summer in the Flathead: WAMX SW1200 No. 1214 leads a Mission Mountain Railroad local north towards Columbia Falls just before sunset on July 28, 2014. The trackage is former Great Northern ... (more)

Out For a Sunday Ride: BNSF Railway officials and shippers enjoy a Sunday train ride along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River on July 20, 2014. The train ran from Seattle to Whitefish th... (more)

This Is The End: In recent months, nearly a dozen Montana Rail Link SD45-2s have been sold and scrapped in Livingston, Mont. and these three locomotives – leading BNSF Railway's H-KCKSPO1... (more)

Last Stand?: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s lead a westbound manifest, H-KCKSPO1-21, off the Lake Pend Oreille bridge in Sandpoint, Idaho on the evening of May 25, 2014. BNSF Railway i... (more)

Streamliners to Spencer! The invasion of Spencer, N.C. of vintage cab cars and streamliners has begun. The locomotive coming the furthest is Doyle McCormack's Nickel Plate Road PA-1 ... (more)

The Gas: Montana Rail Link SDP40-2XR No. 290 leads the Day Gas near Perma, Mont. on the afternoon of April 19, 2014. The engine is MRL's only SDP40-2 and was built in 1966 for the Great Nor... (more)

Leasers: Nine of Montana Rail Link's SD45-2s are earning their keep this spring by being leased to BNSF Railway. Most of the engines, like MRL No. 329 and its sister seen here at Alberton, ... (more)

Avalanche! Two days after a series of avalanches closed BNSF Railway's Hi Line Subdivision, traffic is finally getting back to normal in northwest Montana. One of the largest slides... (more)

"On The Ground": BNSF Railway employees arrive at the scene of a derailment of an empty coal train in Olney, Montana on March 1, 2014. According to railroad officials, 45 cars derailed and ... (more)