The sun tries in vain to shine through heavy clouds and fog in the Clark Fork valley as an eastbound BNSF coal empty traces the southern shore of the river approaching Trout Creek, Montana, on Jan... (more)

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 waters of... (more)

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

MRL rebuilt SD40s 251 and 265 roll east with a freight in the Yellowstone valley east of Columbus, MT. The train is headed for Laurel yard and will meet a westbound coal train between Columbus and... (more)

Montana Rail Link F45 No. 390 leads LM at Greycliff, Montana, on the afternoon of October 3, 2005, amid stormy skies. The train will be treading through snow by the end of the day during a blue ho... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 helper locomotives push an eastbound BNSF freight up Marias Pass and are entering Shed 7 between Java and Blacktail, Montana, on October 9, 1996.

Light fog lifts off the Clark Fork as a BNSF coal train heads west at Tuscor, MT on Montana Rail Link. The train is headed for Roberts Bank, BC.

A Montana Rail Link freight rolls east near Columbus, MT led by a pair of their rebuilt SD40s, a treat considering most trains run with BNSF power.

An eastbound oil train.

A westbound coal train led by BNSF 9033, an SD70ACe and including a CN GE in the consist rolls a loaded coal train toward Columbus, MT west of Park City.

A Boeing J train rolls west around a curve on Montana Rail Link in the Bearmouth area west of Drummond, MT. These trains are designed to keep the Boeing Renton, WA plant supplied on a timely basis... (more)

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

The weather is deteriorating conveying the coming of winter on Montana Rail Link’s Winston Hill. Low clouds partially obscuring the Elkhorn Mountains as a BNSF grain empty rolls downgrade near mil... (more)

BNSF No. 7965 pulls a mixed manifest westbound up the MRL 4th Sub at Falls Creek, between St Regis and Paradise along the Clark Fork River.