Powered by a pair of EMD SD45s, a Montana Rail Link ballast train moves slowly eastward as it loads at the ballast pit at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. MRL uses the former Northern P... (more)

A Montana Rail link ballast train is slowly filled at the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. The railroad uses the former Butte main line now called the Spire Rock Industrial Tr... (more)

On June 4, 2002, a trio of Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD40-2s power a westbound BNSF train westbound over Marias Pass east of Bison, Montana.

Rocky Mountaineer’s “Rockies to the Red Rocks” tour train has just exited Tunnel 1 east of Plainview while climbing Colorado’s front range mountains westbound on the morning of September 1... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal empty meets a westbound BNSF coal train at Winston, Montana, on September 26, 2007. Montana Rail Link’s 840 local power was used to help the westbound coal load up Winston... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 403 powers an eastbound BNSF passenger extra over Bridge 50 spanning the inlet of Big Beaver Creek into the Clark Fork east of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 18,... (more)

Conrail EMD SD50 No. 6713 leads CR’s ELKA westbound toward Chicago rumbling through the curves at New Carlisle, Indiana, at 4:10 p.m. on March 16, 1991.

A westbound BNSF Q train flies across Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana on July 4, 2022. This bridge spans the inlet for Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4301 and 4311, power the road’s ML (Missoula to Laurel) freight through Bonita Tunnel on September 20, 2008. The tunnel is located at mile 94.6 just east of Bo... (more)

Early spring weather rolls eastward from the Medicine Bow Mountain Range and streams over Wyoming’s Sherman Hill with gray clouds on March 25, 2008. A momentary and serendipitous break in the cl... (more)

Weather was abysmal, but the at least the subject is rare and worthy. Green Bay & Western Alco RS3 (RS3u) No. 308 leads three Fox River Valley Railroad Geeps on a northbound freight departing Nort... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 Nos. 3126 and 3121 switch the aggregates plant at the end of Rocky Spur leaving the main line at Rocky, Colorado, on February 21, 2002. During this era, two or three Rio Gran... (more)

A BNSF grain train reflects in the Missouri River as it traces the banks of the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on the clear afternoon of September 22, 2009. T... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 No. 3154 leads Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train through Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on June 24, 2000. These summer runs of the ski train often operated to special eve... (more)

Powered by a trio of EMD SD70Ms, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train exits one of the bores of Hermosa Tunnels on Track 2 east of Hermosa, Wyoming, while crossing Sherman Hill on September 12, ... (more)