Montana Rail Link's local down the Bitterroot Branch (9th Subdivision) rolls across a small trestle and past an old downed tree in the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge north of Stevensville, M... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Logan Local threads its way through the spectacular Jefferson River Canyon, and alongside a Cavern in Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park. The 10-car local is headed up by forme... (more)

A Holcim Trident Cement Plant trackmobile is held up momentarily as the crew tries to shoo three cows across the tracks before shuffling three loads of cement into the siding at Trident, Montana. ... (more)

Early morning fog lifts over Highway 95 in the distance, as an eastbound BNSF grain train begins the long crossing over Lake Pend Oreille at Algoma, Idaho. In the lead are two Dash 9s and an old O... (more)

Two former Northern Pacific GP9s on Montana Rail Link's Paradise Local run around their train to head back to Paradise. I'm standing on the Milwaukee Road's Pacific extension right-of-way which cr... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses Lake Pend Oreille, on January 28, 2013. The head end of the train is officially in Algoma, Idaho, while the DPU's have just left Sandpoint which is on the othe... (more)

Montana Rail Link's ML (Missoula-Laurel) manifest freight showed up just a few minutes before sunrise on a beautiful day in Big Sky country. The intense morning light, which was made even more so ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Vehicle train rolls across the causeway west of Cleveland, North Dakota, on BNSF's Jamestown Subdivision. The eastern North Dakota countryside is dotted with Prairie Potholes (de... (more)

Veteran Montana Rail Link Engineer Charlie Kehrwald is at the controls of GP35 No. 405, as we grind up the 2.2 percent grade of the Harrison Branch at 8.6 mph a few miles south of Sappington, Mont... (more)

Montana Rail Link's 844 Local (otherwise known as the Logan Local), rolls through the short but spectacular Big Antelope Creek Canyon about 3 railroad miles north of Sappington, Montana, on MRL's ... (more)

Burlington Northern's patriotically-painted SD60M no. 1991 takes on an almost ghostly appearance as it rolls east away from the setting sun west of Rozet, Wyoming in July 1991. A pretty wicked sto... (more)

A Great Blue Heron, a bovine, and another species of waterfowl, go about their business as Montana Rail Link's Polson Local heads north past a nice little pond just north of Charlo, Montana. That'... (more)

A rebuilt SD45 (MRL calls it a SD45-2XR) sits in Montana Rail Link's Livingston, Montana shop alongside GP9 no. 130. The former Frisco/BN locomotive, which was rebuilt into a SD45-2XR in 1992, is... (more)

A touch of fog lingers in the air as the blue light of dusk bathes the causeway between the Clark Fork River and Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana. A westbound BNSF MLAUPAS freight appro... (more)

A northbound Canadian National freight makes a set out at Duplainville, WI in the midst of a heavy snowfall. Kudos to railroaders that have to work in all kinds of nasty weather.