Maintenance-of-way is done for the day and has all their equipment into the short house track at Lombard siding—and now traffic is moving again in Montana’s Lombard Canyon on June 17, 2014. A ... (more)

On the afternoon of June 17, 2014, another BNSF coal empty slinks through the curves of Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line.

Chasing its own reflection in the mirror-like surface of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon is a westbound BNSF unit coal train passing over the west switch of Lombard on the afternoon of Septem... (more)

On the morning of June 16, 2014, a westbound BNSF manifest freight curves its way along the Missouri River in scenic Lombard Canyon between Lombard and Toston, Montana.

Lombard has always been on my list of places to visit and this year I finally made it. I didnt have a ton of luck with MRL action but did catch a few trains. In this shot BNSF 4209 leads an Eastbo... (more)

Lombard has always been on my list of places to visit and this year I finally made it. I didnt have a ton of luck with MRL action but did catch a few trains. In this shot BNSF 4209 leads an Eastbo... (more)

A BNSF coal train follows the Missouri River and cloud shadows, as it negotiates Lombard Canyon at Lombard, Montana, during a beautiful afternoon on June 30, 2018.

A pair of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes—Nos. 4403 and 4402—power westbound MRL MLAUMIS as it curves around a bend on the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, on June 22,... (more)

On July 3, 2018, and eastbound BNSF Q train curves through Lombard, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic route along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon.

Layne Staley's voice echoes off the Sixteen Mile Canyon walls as relaxation is in full swing. Good music, good people and good food. I had to step away from the stove while making huckleberry panc... (more)

With a single locomotive fore and aft, an eastbound BNSF vehicle train follows the Missouri River as it exits Lombard Canyon at Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017. On the opposite ... (more)

A BNSF coal empty snakes into Lombard, Montana, on the morning of June 25, 2020, while rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line through Lombard Canyon.

Montana Rail Link LM train (Laurel to Missoula freight) bends through Lombard Canyon between Lombard and Toston, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. On the point is EMD F45 No. 391 le... (more)

BNSF train 196 traces the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon as it approaches Lombard, Montana, on August 9, 1996. Three EMD locomotives power the eastbound train—a pair of SD40-2s and a GP50... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 No. 382 is leading MRL’s Helena local, and is headed westbound through Lombard, Montana, on the evening of June 27, 2016.