An eastbound BNSF freight emerges through morning fog over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on October 3, 2013.

The sight of an occasional mermaid and song of hundreds of frogs are disrupted by three 20 cylinder SD45's and 10,800 horsepower roaring West with a heavy 119 car manifest over what is called &quo... (more)

BNSF HKCKSPO passes over the inlet for Trout Creek at Trout Creek, Montana, on October 1, 2014. Three leased Montana Rail Link SD45s (382, 319 and 328, now labeled SD45-2s) power the westbound fre... (more)

A quiet late October day in western Montana is interrupted briefly as the sound of three 645 prime movers roar through the countryside as they lead a Laurel to Spokane extra manifest over Trout Cr... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses the inlet of Trout Creek over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on October 2, 2014. Leading the train is former warbonnet GE C40-8W No. 905, with Santa Fe sis... (more)

As angry clouds flow overhead and icy winds blow over the waters of Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, an eastbound BNSF stack train is silhouetted against falling rain to the north illuminat... (more)

BNSF 4733 leads an eastbound freight across the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT on a pleasant May evening in 2013 operated by Montana Rail Link.

BNSF 9859 rolls a loaded coal train west across the causeway west of Trout Creek on the Montana Rail Link as the sun pops out of the clouds just prior to sunset. A nice way to end a cloudy day of ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes the tranquil waters of Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 27, 2013.

Under a threatening-looking Montana (big) sky on May 19, 2013, two kids and their dad fish for trout from a small boat on Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, as an eastbound BNSF vehicle train rumbles ... (more)

A BNSF manifest freight thunders eastbound over a snow-covered Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 7, 2014.

A BNSF coal train skirts Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Links’s scenic Fourth Subdivision. Stormy clouds are abundant on September 27, 2013, as two GE ES44ACs power the ... (more)

MRL 351 and 382 lead a Laurel, MT to Spokane, WA ribbon rail train after the sun has gone down over Trout Creek Montana.

An eastbound BNSF coal train crosses the frozen Clark Fork at Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 9, 2014.

Crickets are chirping, frogs are ribbiting and the occasional dolphin jumps out of the Frog Pond while a heavy stack train bound for Logistics Park, Illinois hustles over the MRL's 4th Subdivision... (more)