From a vantage point that Lewis & Clark would themselves have appreciated, an eastbound trundles over the Clark Fork River bridge nearing Bonner.

The NP depot at the lonely outpost of Bonner looks sharp to passing patrons on NP passenger trains.

The westbound counterpart to photos #640955 and 640956 holds the main passing tidy frame depot at Bonner, just a few miles to Missoula.

Quietly clickety-clacking eastward on the siding at Bonner, waiting for its counterpart.. To see the companion shots look up #'s 640955, 640957, 640960

Into the hole at Bonner, about to meet it's counterpart

Station stop at Missoula for the Mainstreeter, Train No. 1.

Scheduled for a morning arrival in Butte Montana, train #26, the North Coast Limited still looks good.

Ten years into it's service life NP 309 works the yard at the Butte terminal.

The large box headlight of Northern Pacific’s first locomotive shines brightly next to SD45 No. 3617 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum at Duluth, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016. The wood-burning... (more)

This could easily be the 1960s! But it's in fact 2015, where freshly restored 3617 is starred in "Railfan Weekend" (featuring SD45s around the state). Here a classic car (which happened to be pass... (more)

1960's? no 2015! After a fresh repaint in North Dakota, Northern Pacific 3617 is just a few days returned to Duluth before it starred in the 2015 "Railfan Weekend" which featured SD45s around the... (more)

Three sets of Northern Pacific passenger F-units await their next train at the King Street Station.

Converted from a steam locomotive tender, steam generator car H-4 lays over in Seattle. Note the covers on the the rolling bearing trucks.

On an absolutely sensational day 3 of Steve Glishinski's railfan weekend, the freshly painted former BN/WC SD45 now in Northern Pacific paint leads a set of ore cars over the Little Sucker River n... (more)

Northern Pacific #7012A leads a sold out Christmas train through Park Junction on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad.