Autumn gold to winter white
Mother Nature can’t decide what season to be in as an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train descends Mullan Pass and curves over Montana Rail ... (more)

MILW Little Joe electric E73 catches some ZZZZs in the Deer Lodge roundhouse on Aug. 4, 1973. Ordered and built for Russia, but never delivered because of tensions, the streamlined GE electrics ... (more)

Relaxing in the restored cab of GN 441 - the luxury locomotive lodge at the Izaak Walton Inn, Essex, Montana.

An old favorite photo spot for many, this one was taken July 12, 1978 when BN's Marias Pass still had signal bridges and crossovers. A F45, a GE U boat and a SD45 lead reefer Train 97 westward ... (more)

A very interesting leader is on eastbound BN intermodal train 28 just west of Browning. It can be safe to say this F45 ran over these tracks many times under BN ownership.

Montana Rail Link’s Missoula to Laurel (ML) freight curves through Lombard Canyon, Montana, on a beautiful August 9, 1996. On the point is F45 No. 391, leading three other big blue EMDs.

Montana Rail Link F45 No. 391 leads the ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest freight) through Bearmouth Canyon at Bearmouth, Montana, on September 2, 2003. Today, October 31, 2012, Montana Rail Link is... (more)

Montana Rail Link F45 no. 390 leads the westbound LM (Laurel-Missoula freight) at Rock Creek (east of Clinton), Montana. I'm glad I was able to photograph this train as it was the last time I shot... (more)

After a hard push up Mullan Pass, A helper set with four SD70ACe's and a tag-along SD45 roll light down the grade at Austin Montana. Before the rehabilitation of Mullan Tunnel, the helper locomoti... (more)

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)

The Jordan spreader work train is amply supplied with horsepower with two Milwaukee Road GE box cab electrics E50A and E50B while dressing the ballast near Piedmont, Mont. Easy around those pole... (more)

MRL 390 . . . 391 . . . 392
All three of Montana Rail Link's F45s (393 was an IMRL unit at this point) are west of Louisville, Montana, with train LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest) on Oc... (more)

Montana Rail Link F45 no. 391 leads the westbound LM into the setting sun at Tobin, Montana. Helena, Montana's capital, is in the distance.

One of the most popular passenger paint schemes, Northern Pacific's "North Coast Limited" Train 25 negotiates Homestake Pass in Montana, westbound on April 10, 1970. Butte will be the next stop, ... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Gas Local heads west near Donlan, Montana (just west of Toole), in the late afternoon. Donlan sits on MRL's 4th Subdivision between St. Regis, and Paradise. Typically, MRL's Ga... (more)