CSX GE C40-8W No. 7683 hauls a train of autoracks westbound at Gary, Indiana, on the old Baltimore & Ohio main line late in the day of February 11, 1995. Just to the north on the former New York C... (more)

From the old, unused Highway overpass at mile 44.6 near Bradley, a westbound BNSF Boeing special flies by at this location on Montana Rail Link’s Third Subdivision main line between Avon and Gar... (more)

Clawing under storm’s edge
We were on Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023, when the nice weather began to change as thunderstorms moved in from t... (more)

Five Montana Rail Link EMD six-axle locomotives, used as a helper set on Bozeman Pass, head downgrade back to Livingston glinting the setting sun on October 10, 2005. Westbound trains get plenty o... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local switches on the Thompson River Lumber lead at Woodlin east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on a frigid and snowy February 7, 2014.

A relaxing afternoon along the Montana’s Clark Fork at Trout Creek sees one last train before nightfall sets in on October 2, 2013, as an eastbound BNSF coal train trundles by.

A Burlington Northern coal empty departs Guernsey, Wyoming, and crosses a bridge spanning the North Platte River leaving town on July 6, 1996. A pair of GE C30-7s mixed with an EMD SD60M and Oakwa... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD19-1 No. 651, a prototype rebuild of a SD9 from MRL’s Livingston Shop, rests at Paradise, Montana, after a week of work on the Paradise local on September 22, 2006. A cle... (more)

With the collapse of Montana Rail Link’s Yellowstone River Bridge near Reed Point under the weight of MLAUMIS on June 24, 2023, and the subsequent severing of a busy main line, MRL and BNSF had ... (more)

The old Dixon, Montana, depot still stood on September 15, 2010, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty meets the westbound Montana Rail Link night gas local at Dixon siding. Meets are somewhat unusual o... (more)

Eight GE and EMD locomotives are leading Union Pacific’s MNYRO westbound as it approaches Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Eisele, Colorado, on February 9, 2015.

Soo Line EMD SD60M No. 6058 leads a hot Soo westbound freight, heavy with auto parts cars destined for St. Paul, approaching Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 4, 1993.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight passes the west siding switch of Leyden while descending the Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision in Colorado on December... (more)

I can almost hear the cicadas along this neat country road on a hot, humid and hazy September 11, 1988, at Pinola Indiana. Around the curve rolls a westbound Conrail coal train headed for Chicago.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)