As the sun sets on June 29, 2016, an eastbound BNSF grain empty curves into Lombard, Montana, on the busy main line of Montana Rail Link. In a few hours, the colorful clouds will build into impres... (more)

There’s nary a breeze on the beautiful, crisp afternoon of February 24, 2017, at Trout Creek, Montana. Passing through the unspoiled winter scene is a BNSF manifest freight crossing Bridge 55 ov... (more)

A westbound Montana Rail Link work train powered by SD40-2XR No. 259 nicely fits on the bridge over the Clark Fork at aptly-named Clark Fork, Idaho.

Passing a lake at Henry House, Alberta, is Canadian National train No. 102 on August 7, 2016. Third unit in the consist is CN No. 5552, the only EMD SD60F currently operating on the system—all o... (more)

The sun is rising over the Clark Fork River Valley east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 13, 1998. Morning fog is slowly burning off as the sun crests over the mountains to the east, silhouetti... (more)

Traversing remote and spectacular Sheep Canyon, BNSF’s north local (Cowley turn) out of Greybull, Wyoming, traces the Bighorn River on the hot afternoon of June 23, 2016. Two recently reactivate... (more)

At what I believe is only location in the world that you can photograph a train through a natural arch, Union Pacific’s Potash Turn heads north into Bootlegger Canyon on May 12, 2006. This train... (more)

The morning sun has finally cleared the mountaintops to the east illuminating fog rising off the still waters of Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on September 25, 2008. A westbound BNSF manifest... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses the Clark Fork at appropriately-named Clark Fork, Idaho, while traversing Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on a wintery February 4, 2016.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight is on the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012. A 12-mile wood trestle used to carry the railroad straight across the lake, but d... (more)

Along the Flathead River, Montana Rail Link’s gas local heads east on the Tenth Subdivision near Dixon, Montana, at McDonald on September 24, 2007.

In extreme blizzard conditions, an eastbound BNSF stack train leaves the mountains of Glacier National Park behind as it fights a crosswind coming through Grizzly, Montana, on December 22, 2007.

Skirting a quick-moving morning rainstorm, an eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the late spring green-covered Badlands of North Dakota at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

Canadian National train No. 104 crosses Prairie Creek Bridge at Hinton, Alberta, on the morning of July 19, 2013.

Amtrak train No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, exits Tunnel 8 and curves around the former location of Tunnel 9 on a 2 percent grade through the tunnel district west of Plainview, Colorado, ... (more)