Loaded coal trains stacked up in the Staples yard await crews to take them down the line.

33,000+ HP of EMD muscle waits on the wrong main for a stack train to pass. This coal empty should have no problem getting up to track speed when the dispatcher gets them moving.

Passing the most photographed barn in Montana, this vehicle train crosses the trestle spanning Two Medicine River between East Glacier and Browning.

TOFC train led by a classic SD40-2 approaches the Highway 10 underpass near Lincoln on a beautiful fall day

A DAPX train led by an SD75M and two Oakways burst into sunlight as they round the curve near the old Hwy 10 overpass near Lincoln

Shiny new AC GEVO leads coal loads past a farmstead into Wadena.

DAPX empties making good time behind 6 modern units

MERC coal loads pass under the Cromwell overpass behind three DC motor EMD's.

My first "grubby" wedgie and a faded warbonnet in charge of an eastbound merchandise train

This matched set of almost new ACEs was leading coal loads through the Frazee S-curves on this cold and clear January day.

7697 serving as DPU unit on a "worm" train

Hazy morning finds 3 EMD's on coal loads

Here a yellowbonnet GP leads a clean wedgie GE around the Bluffton curve

A 4 axle GE leans into a long freight along with a BNSF SD40-2 and KCS tunnel motor rebuild heading west out of Staples

A Z train speeds east just outside new York Mills on a cold and sunny Saturday in January.