Here Comes The Sun | As the sun starts to break through the clouds on a cool Saturday, January 17, 2026, a westbound coal train hauling loads from Wyoming's Powder River Basin makes its way... (more)

Late Fall Sunshine | With the sun breaking through the clouds on a cool Sunday, December 14, 2025, a westbound grain train crosses one of many bridges over the Clark Fork near Donlan, MT on... (more)

After a relaxing night camping along the Clark Fork over the Fourth of July holiday, Minturn the Beagle watches a Montana Rail Link train roll by on the morning of July 5, 2023. We didn’t expect... (more)

Westbound BNSF coal loads pass some rapids on the Clark Fork River along Montana Rail Link's Fourth Sub. This location is very close to where the recent derailment of a BNSF manifest occurred whic... (more)

Thanking our Essential Workers, MRL SD70ACe 4404 pops out of a small tunnel near Quinns, MT.

A loaded oil train heads west above the Clark Fork River.

A green machine. BN 3505 and 7916 leads a pure set of green hopper past the semaphore at MP 710.3 on the 4th Subdivision. (Tom Ellis photo)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local cruises along the Clark Fork at Quinns, Montana, on September 13, 2011. MRL EMD GP9 Nos. 113 and 127 power the eastbound local headed to St. Regis on the railr... (more)

In a panned photograph, BNSF GE ES44AC No. 5812 leads a westbound coal train as it blurs past rock cliffs lining the Clark Fork between Donlan and Quinns, Montana, after sunset on October 6, 2020.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4408 and 4406 power the night gas local west on the Fourth Subdivision main line between Donlan and Quinns, Montana, in a panned photograph from my campsite alon... (more)

Westbound coal loads roll along the Clark Fork River with BNSF No.6000 leading on the MRL 4th Sub between St Regis and Paradise Momtana. Paradise is a good name for the area. Coal is a major commo... (more)

An eastbound BNSF train on the Montana Rail Link with empty airplane cars on the head end.

On the afternoon of September 12, 1998, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crosses the Clark Fork and passes the mile 210.3 semaphore east of Quinns, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s... (more)

Westbound along the Clark fork River a quartet of BNSF engines with a string of hoppers breaks the silence on a beautiful Montana Morning

Chanting along the Clark Fork, Montana Rail Link EMD GP9s Nos. 127 and 120 power a 7-car MRL Paradise local toward St. Regis between Quinns and Donlan, Montana, on September 26, 2014.