A pair of BNSF C44-9W's lead a westbound grain train across bridge 55 at Trout Creek.

The blue hour is approaching as an eastbound BNSF coal empty rolls eastbound on Montana Rail link’s Fourth Subdivision at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

Winter reflection
Mountains lining the Clark Fork Valley cast a reflection in the confluence of Trout Creek as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Monta... (more)

A BNSF unit oil train rumbles over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, as it heads east on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision on June 30, 2020.

The sky darkens, signaling winter storms approaching the Clark Fork Valley of Montana on the afternoon of February 5, 2021, as a westbound BNSF grain train crosses the causeway separating Frog Pon... (more)

Winter along the Clark Fork
Scenery in the Clark Fork Valley is flocked with a recent snowfall as a westbound BNSF grain train passes through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

During a Montana snowstorm, BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek. Interesting that the buffer car, along with the one ag... (more)

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link is a BNSF grain empty at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 7, 2021.

It’s getting toward sunset on February 5, 2021, as an eastbound BNSF unit oil train empty cruises over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana.

The storm has passed leaving everything glazed with winter in the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF grain train heads west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on February ... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train rolls through a curve approaching milepost 57 west of Trout Creek in the middle of a quick-moving Montana snowstorm.

On the afternoon of February 8, 2021, an eastbound BNSF coal empty crosses Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana. A small snowstorm two days before still clings to much of the surroundings at this loc... (more)

The snowstorm hasn’t arrived yet, but humidity is high in Montana’s Clark Fork Valley as fog rolls through the atmosphere. On Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision rails, a westbound BNSF freight... (more)

An eastbound BNSF unit oil train crosses Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2021. The inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork will soon freeze again with the arrival of another win... (more)

Evening light illuminates the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a westbound BNSF manifest freight passes the frog pond west of town on October 4, 2015.