This colorful wooden stock car was still in service in September 1967 spotted at the NP terminal yard.

Pipeline in the morning
Fog rolling off the Clark Fork dissipates into the warmth of a rising sun and swirls around Montana Rail Link’s westbound day gas local arriving at Pipeline at ... (more)

Eastbound Great Northern train 88, with a hefty consist of five U25B's, leaves the Rockies behind as it crosses the plains of eastern Montana through Blackfoot on May 17, 1967. Photo taken from... (more)

Late in the afternoon, Little Joe E70 holds the main with a dead freight, waiting for an eastbound symbol to emerge from St. Paul tunnel. Meanwhile, five Milwaukee Road MOW employees with a speede... (more)

EMD F45 No. 391 leads Montana Rail Link’s ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest freight) through the Bonita Tunnel No. 5 at Bonita, Montana, on September 2, 2003.

MRL's Gas local passes through the Clark Fork Valley at Eddy, as spectacular storm light graces the area.

Dressed in a short-lived sky-blue paint scheme, it is fitting that GN’s EMD switcher is under the big skies of Montana at Whitefish yard with Big Sky Montana ski slope in the background.

A couple of former NP U-33-C’s on the old NP lead a modest westbound freight through semaphores near Cyr, Montana on Aug. 7, 1973. The U boats were only four years old.

In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana. The abandonment of the “Pacific... (more)

Northern Pacific F units on the local perform switching at Whitehall, Mont. on April 10, 1970.

NP’s westbound flagship “North Coast Limited” No. 25 leaves Butte and zips along at speed at Rocker, Montana the evening of April 10, 1970. In this photo it is really a BN train as the mer... (more)

At least the derailment at Red Eagle, Montana wasn’t bad enough to block the Empire Builder’s passage on April 8, 1969. The two derrick work trains, the western one with GP-20 2020, are at e... (more)

Here's a look at the inside of the cab and controls of Montana Rail Link F45 no. 392. When this photo was taken just a few weeks ago, the F45s future was uncertain. Since then, the locomotive was ... (more)

GN 441, decked out in big sky blue, now serves as a luxury mountain resort deep in the northern Montana Rockies at the Izzak Walton Inn. Though this unit hasn't seen freight service in a number of... (more)