The MRL Night Gas wrapping around the Clark Fork River on the MRL 4th Subdivision.

A coal train heads west along the Clark Fork over MRL's 4th Sub, with a trio of H2 dash 9's.

A pair of SD70ACe's lead the Montana Rail Link's Night Gas job as it cruises alongside the Clark Fork River on the MRL's 4th Sub outside of St. Regis, Montana. Today's train has a few gons on the ... (more)

Getting out of St. Regis before dawn, we headed to some of Montana Rail Link’s last Northern Pacific-era semaphores east of town. Magic colors appeared as a rising sun finally peaked over the ta... (more)

With snow flurries falling, Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas Local" slices through the Rocky Mountains and across the Clark Fork River between Paradise and St. Regis. It's not hard to see wh... (more)

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... (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)