A Mission Mountain Railroad local makes its way through downtown Kalispell, Mont. on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. The city of Kalispell is looking for ways to move the railroad and its line side... (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)

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)

Fall and Fog on the Great Northern: Even if the timetables read 'BNSF Railway,' this piece of railroad in Northwest Montana will always be James J. Hill's creation: The Great Northern Railw... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder enters East Glacier, Mont. on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 19, 2011. Cold winds cut across the plains and through the mountains on this day forcing me to break out a winter... (more)

On the evening of Sept. 10, 2011, Montana Rail Link SD45-2 382 leads the twice daily gas local west near Nagos, Mont., one of the toughest stretches of Evaro Hill on the 10th sub.

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight rolls along the Flathead River near Perma, Mont. on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub on the morning of Sept. 4, 2011. Leading the way is BNSF SD75I 8295, sporting wh... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight rolls through Lothrop, Montana on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision on the afternoon of August 6, 2011. At the throttle is MRL engineer David Franz, a veteran of MRL, th... (more)

Another Day In Glacier Country: The sun is about to set on another day in Northwest Montana, as a BNSF manifest storms west near Pinnacle on the evening of August 2, 2011. To the left of th... (more)

Waiting: Fort Steele Steam Railway shay 115 waits in the wings on a summer day in July, 2011. The engine - a vet of Vancouver Island logging roads - hasn't run in sometime, but hopefully wi... (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)

Canadian Pacific GP38-2 3084 leads the Make-A-Wish excursion east at Bull River, British Columbia on the afternoon of July 16, 2011. The train is seen here along the Kootenay River.

Canadian Pacific GP38-2 3084 leads the Make-A-Wish excursion east at Elko, British Columbia on the afternoon of July 16, 2011. The train was supposed to have CP 4-6-4 2816, but the engine was side... (more)

With a consist only Montana Rail Link could create, MRL SD40-2 261 leads an SD70ACe and two GP9s on the Night Gas up Evaro Hill on the evening of July 10, 2011. The train has just reached the summ... (more)

The Builder: Amtrak train 7, the Empire Builder, makes its way across the Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana on the evening of July 3, 2011. The train is almost an hour late as it... (more)