Oil At The Falls | Snaking around the Kootenai River at Kootenai Falls, MT, a BNSF crude oil train from the North Dakota oilfields heads west on the sunny afternoon of Tuesday, September 16... (more)

One of the ubiquitous SD40-2s of BN heritage leads a westbound intermodal outfit along the river grade near Kootenai Falls, MT. Fuji Astia.

The thick smoke from wildfires further west subsides briefly to allow the sun to illuminate a westbound BNSF manifest working its way past Kootenai Falls on BNSF's Kootenai Subdivision between Whi... (more)

A BNSF Seattle - Chicago intermodal follows the Kootenai River under an ominous wildfire smoke filled sky.

A veteran warbonnet brings up the rear of an eastbound grain train holding down the siding for an afternoon meet. This is just west of the famous swing-bridge over stunning Kootenai Falls between ... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train is stopped and poses for a photo near Kootenai Falls west of Libby, MT on a beautiful October afternoon on Great Northern's former mainline.

An eastbound oil train rolls along the Kootenai River at Kootenai Falls, west of Libby, MT as clouds break up and sun breaks through. The train is making a run from Hauser, ID to Whitefish, MT on ... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train passes through Kootenai Falls, Montana, on February 7, 2016.

BNSF 8276 eases along the Kootenai River at Kootenai Falls, slowing for a meet with an eastbound empty oil train on BNSF's "High Line" west of Libby, MT.

An H1 Dash 9 leads an empty unit grain train upriver past the rapids below Kootenai Falls at Kootenai Falls siding.

Two days before my first day of high school, and as I was just getting used to my first non-point-and-shoot camera, we took a trip up to the Libby-Troy region for a weekend of shooting on the Koot... (more)

As the day begins to come to a close, BNSF 1114 heads a WB out of the west end of the Kootenai Falls siding, after a meet with an EB Z.

The steel gang is done for the day and the parade of delayed trains begins. Here a rolling meet between an intermodal train and a manifest occurs at Kootenai Falls siding.

Westbound coal.