Change on the Mountain: On an overcast day in May 2008 a Mount Washington Cog Railway shop employee inspects Wajo Nanatasis, a John Deere build Diesel Cog locomotive. Since its start in the late 1... (more)

The Last Class One: Union Pacific's Plummer Local, seen here on a nice spring afternoon in May 2008, may look like nothing special. But you'd be wrong. It holds the title as being one of the last ... (more)

Spring is slowly creeping its way back to Montana and the weekend of April 18th provided the perfect opertunity to get out and enjoy it. Seen here at Lothrop, Montana, train MLAUPAS218 passes alon... (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)

On the first day of March 2009, an eastbound BNSF grain train descends Evaro Hill on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub. Just a few short weeks ago a derailment on MRLs 4th west of Missoula forced train... (more)

With a short cut of freight and a cobbose on the rear end, Montana Rail Link's Schilling Local is a perfect depliction of a classic wayfreight. Seen here on February 28, the local has just finishe... (more)

With the last light of a winters day getting weaker by the moment, MRL 4309 leads a very short Gas Local west out of Missoula on Saturday, February 21, 2009. The second unit, MRL 332, is of intere... (more)

With the sun shinning for the first time in days in the northern Rockies, Montana Rail Link could not have picked a better day then Saturday, Febuary 7, 2009 to operate a passenger extra between M... (more)

One has to wonder how many times photographers like Richard Steinheimer, Ted Benson, and Ron Nixon stood on the platform of the Missoula, Montana Milwaukee Depot. Their hope? The headlight of a MI... (more)

"The Main Street of Montana:" The NP was the main street of the northwest and decades after the last black and gold locomotives of that road graced the rails, its predecessor, Montana Rail Link, c... (more)

A Montana Rail Link GP35 is framed by a fuel pump as it sits at the Missoula fuel rack on a November night in 2008. Image obtained with permission.

Chicago is known for a lot of things; baseball, politics, food and music. But right up there with any of those things in railroading. It is arguably the center of North American railroading; where... (more)

Few things stay constant in New England Railroading. In the almost 15 years I've been shooting, railroads have come and gone, lines abandonded, others reopened. One thing that has changed little h... (more)

In the Footprints of Legends: When shooting on Washington County’s Connecticut River Division your likely shooting in the footprints of New England legends such as Phil Hastings, Alan Thomas and S... (more)

"Where the trunk means Washington County:" That's the conclusion that Ben Bachman may have come to if his pivotal two part series on the Vermont's River Line, published in the January and Febuary ... (more)