A BNSF empty coal train heads east on Montana Rail Link crossing the Frog Pond causeway along the Clark Fork near Trout Creek, MT. The pond is frozen, but there is no snow on this spring-like Febr... (more)

BNSF 8001 operates as a DPU on the rear of an eastbound empty grain shuttle near Trout Creek, MT on a relatively balmy February 22, 2015. Only the ice on the pond indicates winter.

A detouring eastbound BNSF vehicle train crosses the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision during the morning of May 21, 2011.

A BNSF coal empty rounds the curve in early morning sun just east of the milepost 57 bridge over the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT. The headlights are reflecting on the ice covered frog ... (more)

Not much winter this winter, but ice at least still covers the frog pond late afternoon near Trout Creek, MT on the Montana Rail Link as a BNSF coal train heads west towards the Pacific Northwest ... (more)

Former British Columbia Railway C44-9W n0. 4654 leads a BNSF Gevo on a eastbound Pasco-Laurel manifest on Montana Rail Link the afternoon of February 22. Looking much more like late March than win... (more)

UP 8588 and a CSX mate rush a Boeing train of empty equipment east on Montana Rail Link at MP 55, Trout Creek, MT. Business is good at Boeing and "Boeing specials" are not uncommon on th... (more)

BNSF 4645 heads an empty grain train east on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork at the frog pond near Trout Creek, MT. Weather is almost spring-like, and there is virtually no snow on the grou... (more)

A BNSF Roberts Bank coal train crosses the causeway separating Frog Pond and the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 27, 2013.

Casting a soft reflection in the waters of Frog Pond, a westbound BNSF manifest freight passes through Trout Creek, Montana, late in the day of May 18, 2013.

An eastbound BNSF coal train crosses Bridge 57 over the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the tranquil afternoon of May 20, 2013.

An eastbound BNSF freight skirts Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, and catches the golden rays of a setting sun on September 15, 2011.

A BNSF grain train passes a frozen Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 26, 2013. Three flavors of GE C44-9Ws power the eastbound; Heritage II No. 4835, Heritage I “Goat Boat” No... (more)

A bit of lingering fog dances on the surface of the calm water, as a westbound BNSF freight heads across the causeway between the Clark Fork River (on the left), and Frog Pond, west of Trout Creek... (more)

Rumbling along the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the morning of October 4, 2014, is eastbound BNSF MSPOLAU with an all-EMD seven locomotive consist. Three MRL SD45s lead orange GP39-... (more)