BNSF HGALPAS flies through the snow just west of Thompson Falls, Montana, on February 7, 2014. Single C44-9W No. 4381 is on the lead with another GE in DPU mode pushing on the rear.

Entering the siding at Thompson Falls, Montana, to meet an eastbound is BNSF HKCKSPO on October 1, 2014. Three leased Montana Rail Link SD45s (382, 319 and 328, now labeled SD45-2s) power the west... (more)

Traveling along the frozen Clark Fork, Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local passes through Woodlin, Montana, on February 7, 2014. The nose of GP9 No. 127 is packed with the tools of winter; two br... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local arrives at Pipeline at Thompson Falls, Montana, on a snowy February 9, 2014 as a state highway plow scrapes by on Highway 200. The train is led by MRL SD40-2XR Nos.... (more)

Traveling along the blue waters of the Clark Fork, Montana Rail Link’s eastbound gas local has just crossed the Thompson River just east of Woodlin, Montana, on the morning of May 10, 2010.

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 5059 leads westbound BNSF grain shuttle GGLAVAW west of Thompson Falls, Montana, on February 9, 2014, over a snowy Montana Rail Link Fourth Subdivision.

Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 109 peaks through an empty log flat while switching Thompson River Lumber east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 20, 2013. The crew is ready to head back to Paradise... (more)

MRL109 is ex Northern Pacific built in 2/1955. On a blustery Montana afternoon the Paradise local switches out the big lumber mill in Thompson Falls. Amazing these old Geeps are still running str... (more)

Traveling along the frozen Clark Fork, Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local passes through Woodlin, Montana, on February 7, 2014. The local will switch customers on the Thompson River Lumber Lead ... (more)

Storm light at Pipeline
Montana Rail Link’s night gas local switches tank cars at Thompson Falls (Pipeline), Montana, late in the afternoon of May 5, 2012. After a mostly cloudy and r... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local backs up the Thompson River Lumber Lead at Woodlin near Thompson Falls, Montana, on a cold, crisp February 7, 2014. Recently repainted EMD GP9 No. 127 leads th... (more)

MRL 127 leads the Paradise Local arrives on the east side of Thompson Falls, Montana to switch the lumber mill. MRL crews had just finished shoveling out the switches. With e recent snow, wind and... (more)

Under some fleeting and golden afternoon sunshine, Montana Rail Link SDP40 No. 290 pulls an eastbound work train on the lead into Thompson River Lumber at Woodlin (just east of Thompson Falls), Mo... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local is westbound along a frozen Clark Fork approaching Thompson Falls, Montana, on a cold January 24, 2013. A rebuilt SD45 that MRL labels an SD45-2, No. 318 leads a ne... (more)

I'm not accustomed to being on the ground and looking DOWN at planes. Four Boeing 737s roll west along the Clark Fork River.