With no trains to push over Marias Pass, two BNSF helper sets rest in the yard at Essex, Montana, on Christmas night in 2007. Merry Christmas everyone!

My brother Tom photographs a snowman that is seemingly waving to a westbound BNSF grain train grossing Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on a rainy January 26, 2020. On the cusp of snow was the w... (more)

A BNSF stack train makes good time up the westbound grade of Stevens Pass bound for Cascade Tunnel at Merritt, Washington, on February 20, 2017.

Rainy weather has moved east at the end of the day on October 8, 2005, and the sun makes a brief appearance before dropping behind the mountains west of Helena, Montana, while Montana Rail Link EM... (more)

In the last few weeks, Montana Rail Link has been doing some housecleaning before the BNSF takeover at the end of the year. Several locomotives were scrapped at Livingston, including EMD SD45 Nos.... (more)

Sprinting toward Duplainville
A pair of Milwaukee Road GP40s sprints Soo Line train 211 westbound toward Springdale Road grade crossing just east of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a hazy A... (more)

A young daughter of one of the residents of Trout Creek, Montana, tries her luck at ice fishing on Frog Pond along the Clark Fork on January 25, 2013. Rumbling along between the two over a frozen ... (more)

Conrail EMD GP40-2 No. 3378 leads an eastbound CR freight out of Gallitzin Tunnel at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, on October 23, 1988. In 1995, the Gallitzin Tunnel was abandoned in favor of an adjoin... (more)

Santa Fe run-through power, led by AT&SF GE B23-7 No. 6370, pulls Conrail’s ELSF freight into a lowering sun at New Carlisle, Indiana, on September 10, 1988.

The rains of springtime have greened up the Badlands of North Dakota, as an eastbound BNSF coal train snakes through through the curves at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

A southbound Iowa Northern Railway freight, led by EMD GP38-2 No. 3800, rolls through Greene, Iowa, on May 21, 2014.

On May 7, 2012, several veteran Montana Rail Link locomotives were stored inside one of the older shop buildings at the railroad’s main locomotive facility at Livingston, Montana, including MRL ... (more)

The late afternoon sun makes a brief appearance on an otherwise rainy day at Helena, Montana, on October 8, 2005. Two Montana Rail Link machinists at the “roundhouse” talk briefly while mainta... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR Nos. 252 and 252 power the railroad’s Helena local eastbound out of Trident, Montana, on September 14, 2010.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1988, a westbound Santa Fe piggyback train storms through Edelstein, Illinois, after climbing the hill out of Chillicothe, Illinois.