Flares Down the Fourth: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s leads a BNSF Railway manifest freight down the Fourth Subdivision near Paradise, Montana on Sept. 6, 2015. The SD45-2s have been ... (more)

Crowsnest Pass: An eastbound Canadian Pacific manifest freight rolls down the eastern slope of Crowsnest Pass on the British Columbia - Alberta border. The train is about to enter the commu... (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.

A Maine Eastern excursion heads west on the afternoon of August 20, 2009 at Thomaston, Maine.

Leasers: Nine of Montana Rail Link's SD45-2s are earning their keep this spring by being leased to BNSF Railway. Most of the engines, like MRL No. 329 and its sister seen here at Alberton, ... (more)

Finals Week: Being a journalism student at the University of Montana is tough. Your work becomes your life. But the one plus to all of it is a lack of final exams. So while everyone else in Missou... (more)

Clocking Out: It's almost quitting time for the crew of the Mission Mountain local as it rolls through La Salle, Mont., just south of Columbia Falls, on the afternoon of Nov. 1, 2011. Thank... (more)

Plug and Play: Just like modern plug and play software on a computer, all it takes to start Iowa Traction Railroad 54 for a day of work is contact with live wire. With that she's ready to kick car... (more)

Its a long and tough walk to Waumbek Tank, one not likely made by most railfans, but a worth while one at that, if only for the expernce to see steam powered trains meet on a mountain grade. Mt Wa... (more)

BNSF 1014 leads J-WICINB9-19A across Fish Creek Trestle on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision, just west of Cyr, Montana, on April 23, 2011. Behind the locomotive is a short train consisting of B... (more)

BNSF Railway No. 6976 leads an office car special along the southern boundary of Glacier National Park on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. On this day, the train made a round trip from Whitefish to Ea... (more)

Railfans rush to the overpass along Rte. 2 as an eastbound mixed freight heads for BNSF's Marias Pass on the Hi-Line Sub near Red Eagle, Montana. Over 40 fans were on hand for the Alta-Mont railfa... (more)

Dashing through the... snow?: A westbound BNSF stack train rolls along the Flathead River, on the southern boundary of Glacier National Park. Although it's raining along the Flathead, furth... (more)

An eastbound grain train decends Evaro Hill on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub. on the morning of November 25, 2009. It was the second of three empty grain trains that would cross the hill during the... (more)

Short Train: While a few years ago MRL's Bonner local would have been a dozen or so cars, today there are only three trailing behind the power. Traffic from the locals largest costomer, Stimson Lu... (more)