On July 3, 2018, and eastbound BNSF Q train curves through Lombard, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic route along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon.

Layne Staley's voice echoes off the Sixteen Mile Canyon walls as relaxation is in full swing. Good music, good people and good food. I had to step away from the stove while making huckleberry panc... (more)

With a single locomotive fore and aft, an eastbound BNSF vehicle train follows the Missouri River as it exits Lombard Canyon at Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017. On the opposite ... (more)

A BNSF coal empty snakes into Lombard, Montana, on the morning of June 25, 2020, while rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line through Lombard Canyon.

Montana Rail Link LM train (Laurel to Missoula freight) bends through Lombard Canyon between Lombard and Toston, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. On the point is EMD F45 No. 391 le... (more)

BNSF train 196 traces the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon as it approaches Lombard, Montana, on August 9, 1996. Three EMD locomotives power the eastbound train—a pair of SD40-2s and a GP50... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 No. 382 is leading MRL’s Helena local, and is headed westbound through Lombard, Montana, on the evening of June 27, 2016.

Ghosts of Lombard.
With a full harvest moon, a MRL manifest passes through Lombard, MT. Originally founded in the 1890s, Lombard, MT, the iconic location where the Milwaukee Road’s bridge o... (more)

An eastbound 'super train' consisting of a combined empty coal and grain train eases along the Missouri River headwaters in Lombard Canyon Montana on a hot July afternoon.

Burlington Northern train 120 follows water’s edge as it negotiates Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. For power, a pair of BN EMD SD40-2... (more)

BNSF GE C44-9W No. 5269 leads a pair of EMD SD70MACs on a westbound coal train slinking through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of September 30, 2013.

Late on the afternoon of June 29, 2016, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local, led by EMD SD45 No. 382, rolls through Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, with seven cars for Helena yard.

As storms roll east in the background, an eastbound BNSF grain train snakes along the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 15, 2014.

Heading westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision, a BNSF freight approaches the east switch of the siding at Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017. The Missouri River is ... (more)

Standing on the crumbling abutments of Milwaukee Road’s impressive curved bridge over the Missouri River, we watch a distant storm skirt the ghost town of Lombard, Montana, at sunset on June 29,... (more)