Rolling westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision along the Clark Fork is a BNSF manifest freight passing the empty yard at St. Regis, Montana, on September 29, 2014.

With more switching to do in the town of Superior on this autumn day of October 16, 2000, Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local chants eastbound past the semaphores at St. Regis, Montana. The train i... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9Ws power an eastbound freight on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision approaching St. Regis, Montana, on July 1, 2000.

Waking up on the morning of October 16, 2000, at St. Regis, Montana, revealed weather foretelling the coming of winter, making one almost want to sleep in when low-speed film is loaded in the came... (more)

Just out of the siding at Toole on the 4th Sub, coal buckets swing along the gorgeous Clark Fork River as they head east.

Montana Rail Link’s gas local heads eastbound through a sweeping curve just west of St. Regis, Montana, on September 3, 1999.

Dressed in warbonnet red, Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 747 thunders westward with a freight past the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5071 leads an eastbound BNSF freight through the mile 196.3 semaphores at East St. Regis, Montana, on the morning of September 7, 1998.

An eastbound freight led by Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 7880 thunders through the Northern Pacific vintage semaphores at East St. Regis, Montana, on September 12, 1998.

The 1990s were a great time to be out trackside. There were still plenty of locomotives in AT&SF, C&NW, D&RGW and SP colors, rolling stock still bore the road names of myriad lines and traffic was... (more)

The sun is rising over the Clark Fork River Valley east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 13, 1998. Morning fog is slowly burning off as the sun crests over the mountains to the east, silhouetti... (more)

The Paradise local scurries west from St. Regis, MT after switching the lumber mill along the Clark Fork. A pair of rebuilt GP9s are more than enough power for today's short train. Local traffic h... (more)

In the pouring rain, a member of Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local works with a power switch so the pair of GP9s can complete running around its train at St. Regis, Montana, on September 25, 2013... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe unit grain train passes the Northern Pacific-era semaphores at milepost 192 east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 1, 2003.

BN 2701 and two more GP39-2s roll a westbound TOFC train through St. Regis, Montana along the Clark Fork en route to Spokane and Seattle/Portland. This train is operating on the former Northern Pa... (more)