A couple does some ice fishing on a mostly frozen Clark Fork as a westbound BNSF coal train crosses Bridge 57 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 3, 2023.

Led by BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3944 is a westbound coal train bound for Roberts Bank, B.C., passing through a wintery scene at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 3, 2023.

The Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line, completed in 1909, north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Cha... (more)

The rear DPU of a loaded BNSF coal train is joined by a trio of MRL locos for the climb out of Livingston, Montana and over Bozeman Pass. A pair of MRL SD70ACe's bracket the sole SD40P-2XR on the ... (more)

A Montana Rail Link work train distributing ties is safely in the clear in the siding at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF grain train rolls by westbound on February 6, 2023. Blue MRL wide-vision ca... (more)

Another winter day comes to a close as a BNSF grain train rolls west on Montana Rail Link’s main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 4, 2023.

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight, simply called the LM, waits at the end of double track just west of Livingston, Montana, on September 23, 2002. Road power of a pair of E... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight passes through a wintery scene at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2023. Behind the BNSF r... (more)

Devastating flooding in Montana almost took out this bridge in June 2022. Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built this 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at... (more)

A barn and another outbuilding are still standing at an abandoned homestead and ranch that was once part of a tiny community known as Weed, located above Austin, Montana. Weed is still a place nam... (more)

Java Snowsheds Glacier National Park A colorful eastbound marine stack climbs the 1.8% grade at Java, Montana. A dry cold front made a crisp clear morning despite area wildfires. Tom Dan... (more)

Carrying a load of three Boeing 737 fuselages mounted on flat cars, along with three additional flat cars used as spacers for the oversize loads, is a westbound BNSF J train hurrying through Trout... (more)

At Trout Creek, Montana, thick ice is cracking and heaving with fluctuating water levels at the frozen inlet of Trout Creek where it flows into the Clark Fork. Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivi... (more)

In my mind, there’s hardly anything better than a few beers around a campfire on a crisp, snowy Montana evening along the Clark Fork and Montana Rail Link’s busy Fourth Subdivision. Friends Da... (more)

Another wintery day in Montana is coming to a close as layers of fog roll through Montana’s Clark Fork River Valley. As the blue hour approaches, a BNSF grain train rumbles westbound out of Trou... (more)