A westbound BNSF coal train rolls through a curve approaching milepost 57 west of Trout Creek in the middle of a quick-moving Montana snowstorm.

On the afternoon of February 8, 2021, an eastbound BNSF coal empty crosses Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana. A small snowstorm two days before still clings to much of the surroundings at this loc... (more)

The snowstorm hasn’t arrived yet, but humidity is high in Montana’s Clark Fork Valley as fog rolls through the atmosphere. On Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision rails, a westbound BNSF f... (more)

An eastbound BNSF unit oil train crosses Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2021. The inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork will soon freeze again with the arrival of another win... (more)

Evening light illuminates the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a westbound BNSF manifest freight passes the frog pond west of town on October 4, 2015.

A westbound BNSF stack train crosses the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork on Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on June 29, 2020.

Venerable BNSF Dash 9 no. 4030 serves as DPU on an eastbound freight on Montana Rail Link at the frog pond just outside Trout Creek, MT.

Frog Pond is half ice and half open water, and reflects a winter sky that has finally quit raining on the afternoon of January 27, 2020, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty cruises by at Trout Creek, ... (more)

A BNSF manifest freight heads west out of Trout Creek along the Clark Fork on a beautiful autumn afternoon in Montana on October 5, 2020.

The sun is setting on October 3, 2020, as a westbound BNSF grain train passes a reflective Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision.

Late afternoon sunlight hangs on long enough for a westbound loaded coal train on Montana Rail Link to be captured with BNSF ES44AC no. 5935 and an ACe on the point at the frog pond west of Trout ... (more)

BNSF ES44AC no. 5798 and AC4400CW no. 5649 pair up as DPUs on an eastbound empty coal train on Montana Rail Link at the frog pond along the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT.

BNSF leads a colorful consist west across the causeway along the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT, handling a coal train over Montana Rail Link. The train is headed for Roberts Bank, BC for... (more)

BNSF 9348 brings up the rear of a westbound coal train on Montana Rail Link at the end of a nice October day along the Clark Fork in northwest Montana. The frog pond at Trout Creek is always a nic... (more)

Two BNSF GE C44-9W locomotives powering a westbound freight on Montana Rail Links Fourth Subdivision cross the bridge over the confluence of Big Beaver Creek into the Clark Fork east of Trout Cree... (more)