An eastbound stack train pulls out onto the high plains of Montana after coming down off Marias Pass. The altitude here is about 5000 feet.

An eastbound stack train crosses the Two Medicine River bridge just east of East Glacier Park Village. The nearby Glacier Park Lodge provided the railfanning coffee for this early morning shot.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight crosses Bridge 208 over the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision at Donlan, Montana, on September 5, 1999. Two GE C44-9Ws in warbonnet colo... (more)

An eastbound grainer rolls across the trestle at Cutbank, Montana. In the distance you can see the Rocky mountains nearly 50 miles away.

BNSF SD70MAC units 9465. 9513 and 9600 have uncoupled from an eastbound coal train for servicing at Alliance.

Two BNSF coal trains from The Powder River Basin have pulled into Alliance, Nebraska.

On September 5, 2003, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest crosses the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille between Sandpoint and Algoma, Idaho. Leading the train is former Santa Fe GE B40-8... (more)

An westbound BNSF train with Boeing 737 fuselages and other components heading for final assembly in Renton, Washington.

Two trains meet near Palmer Lake, Colorado, at a location know as “Sag” or Spruce. When the Santa Fe built its line between Colorado Springs and Denver, Rio Grande was already there, and per a... (more)

The jagged mountains of Glacier National Park fill the background behind an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train at Bison, Montana, on the morning of June 4, 2002.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the towering Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana, on December 21, 1998. A trio of Heritage I GE C44-9Ws power the train�... (more)

Washington's Yakima Canyon is pretty scenic and even more so while there's still some green on the hills. An empty (as they all are here) grain train crosses the Yakima River just downstream fro... (more)

A BNSF coal train rounds the curve in front of the Amtrak service facilities in Chicago. The Chicago skyline is seen in the background.