"On The Ground": BNSF Railway employees arrive at the scene of a derailment of an empty coal train in Olney, Montana on March 1, 2014. According to railroad officials, 45 cars derailed and ... (more)

"Welcome Home:" Montana Rail Link SD45-2 311 returns to home rails for the first time since 2008 when it was sent to CEECo in Tacoma, Washington to be repainted into Montana Rail Links newest sche... (more)

High Plains and Lonely Trains: Central Montana Rail Extra 1814 East looks insignificant on the 1,698 foot long Sage Creek Trestle, just west of Danvers, Mont. Operating on the former Milwau... (more)

A BNSF grain train prepares to depart Missoula, Montana on Montana Rail Link's 3ed Sub on the afternoon of September 21, 2009. In the foreground is a member of the University of Montana Hang Glidi... (more)

Streamliners to Spencer! The invasion of Spencer, N.C. of vintage cab cars and streamliners has begun. The locomotive coming the furthest is Doyle McCormack's Nickel Plate Road PA-1 ... (more)

SD40-2s in the Southern Interior: As news of a proposed merger between Canadian Pacific Railway and CSX Transportation broke in the Wall Street Journal, the crew CP train No. 565 went about... (more)

Just Like The Posters: When Great Northern Railway promoters tried to sell the wilds of Montana to potential travelers, this is what they were thinking of; tall mountains, rapid rivers, stu... (more)

On a crystal clear spring day along Glacier National Park, BNSF No. 7191 leads a Tacoma-bound stack train through John F. Stevens Canyon near West Glacier, Montana on April 17, 2016. This c... (more)

Last Stand?: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s lead a westbound manifest, H-KCKSPO1-21, off the Lake Pend Oreille bridge in Sandpoint, Idaho on the evening of May 25, 2014. BNSF Railway i... (more)

Help Wanted: A BNSF helper set shoves on the rear end of an eastbound manifest freight heading up the western slope of Marias Pass. The train is seen here, crossing the Goat Lick Trestle ne... (more)

Steam Along the Middle Fork: Norfolk & Western No. 611 is not the only streamlined 4-8-4 that brings crowds trackside. Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 has been pleasing fans since it was... (more)

So Fresh, So Clean: Montana Rail Link SD70ACe 4312 leads the Night Gas on the evening of May 23, 2011. The engine is the first of its class to wear the new MRL paint scheme and it carries i... (more)

Unbelievable: That's what I thought when I first heard of a Pan Am 'heritage' program; After all, under all that blue paint, it was still Guilford. Wasn't it? Well it only took one afternoo... (more)

Hoosac Tunnel?: Hoosac, Mont. is long way away from the Boston and Maine and the real Hoosac Tunnel, but at 2,014 foot long, the Central Montana's Sage Creek Tunnel is just as impressive. O... (more)

Just A Test: BNSF No. 5891 leads an eastbound autorack train through Whitefish, Mont. on Sept. 27, 2013. Nearby, members of the Kalispell Fire Department train on BNSF's hazardous materials... (more)