Crepuscular Creekside Rainfall | As the sky begins to darken on the evening of Monday, November 3, 2025, an eastbound empty grain train crosses the mouth of Trout Creek in a steady rainfall... (more)

Drizzling On Frog Pond | Passing Frog Pond near the town of Trout Creek, MT, a BNSF intermodal train heads east in a light rain on the cool afternoon of Monday, November 3, 2025.

An eastbound BNSF grain train rumbles across Bridge 55 over Trout Creek along the Clark Fork and the former Montana Rail Link main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on a wintery February 12, 2024... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train follows an icy and foggy Clark Fork Valley through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2024.

BNSF Q-ALTPTL rolls over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, heading west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on the bright winter day of February 5, 2022.

An eastbound BNSF coal empty runs along the siding at Trout Creek, Montana, and passes the wye and spur that once served a lumber facility on February 12, 2024.

An eastbound BNSF grain train follows the Clark Fork to Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2024. Trailing lead motor BNSF GE ES44AC No. 5796 is Ferromex EMD SD70ACe No. 4053, adding some color t... (more)

On a wintery morning in the Clark Fork River Valley, a westbound BNSF freight crosses Bridge 57 spanning the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 9, 2024.

BNSF GE ET44AC No. 3672 leads an eastbound BNSF grain train through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 11, 2024. This former Montana Rail Link main line is now BNSF’s MRL Subdivision of its Monta... (more)

A westbound BNSF Q train crosses Bridge 55 over the icy Trout Creek inlet into the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 12, 2024. The westbound train is operating on former Montana Rail... (more)

On the afternoon of February 5, 2022, an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork while traversing Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line through... (more)

A relaxing afternoon along the Montana’s Clark Fork at Trout Creek sees one last train before nightfall sets in on October 2, 2013, as an eastbound BNSF coal train trundles by.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

My brother Tom photographs a snowman that is seemingly waving to a westbound BNSF grain train grossing Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on a rainy January 26, 2020. On the cusp of snow was the w... (more)

A young daughter of one of the residents of Trout Creek, Montana, tries her luck at ice fishing on Frog Pond along the Clark Fork on January 25, 2013. Rumbling along between the two over a frozen ... (more)