An eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train rolls along the raging Feather River near Virgilia. Heavy rain has made the normally tranquil Feather River into a monster, and waterfalls were cascadin... (more)

A borrowed BNSF Warbonnet Dash 9 and three Amtrak P42s lead the eastbound Empire Builder as it heads away from the spectacular mountains of Glacier National Park at Grizzley, Montana.

Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder takes the curves through Summit, Montana, on BNSF's Marias Pass. Amtrak P42 no. 4 in Phase 4 paint, leads the train.

A Montana Rail Link local switches an industry in Belgrade, Montana. On the point is a former Missabe SD9. The device shown on the left is a Lock Box for the switch off of the main for the industr... (more)

A Burlington Northern eastbound manifest freight rolls along the Mississippi River in Genoa, Wisconsin, in October 1995. Up front is a Burlington Northern SD40-2, followed by a Santa Fe GP60B, and... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train is silhouetted against a beautiful Wyoming sky south of Bill, Wyoming. We were lucky that we had a sliver of clear sky underneath the clouds at sunset to help add some c... (more)

Most of the time, you have a mostly clear day, and you get a cloud. Occasionally, you get lucky with the opposite. Here an eastbound coal train from Centralia, Washington, rolls along what they ca... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train bound for Centralia, Washington, crosses the causeway east of Heron, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision. As I was waiting for this train to come, I noticed... (more)

A crew member from R.J. Corman Derailment Services looks on as a tractor places a piece of panel track on the ground. The crumpled TXUX hopper seen on the right will be hoisted on to that panel sh... (more)

After a long night busting snow drifts in Minnesota, and North Dakota, an Amtrak crew member shovels out a baggage car on Amtrak's Empire Builder at its stop in Minot, North Dakota. Apparently, th... (more)

Happy 25th Anniversary MRL! It's hard to believe, but MRL has been running trains in this territory for longer than Burlington Northern did, and in the not so distant future, MRL itself will have ... (more)

Happy 25th Anniversary MRL! It's hard to believe, but MRL has been running trains in this territory for longer than Burlington Northern did, and in the not so distant future, MRL itself will have ... (more)

The whole generation range of EMD locomotives owned by Montana Rail Link can be seen here in Helena, Montana. The SD70ACe has just received a bath by a contract washer (missed a couple of spots by... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD7 no. 607, leads two other high-hood SDs, a GP9 and grain train up Mullan Pass just west of Skyline, Montana, in August 1993. I can remember like it was yesterday the incredibl... (more)

This is the intimidating view you would have if you were about to crouch underneath a Montana Rail Link SD9. Here MRL no. 608 is in the Livingston, Montana, shop to receive some minor sheet metal ... (more)