A westbound BNSF oil train crosses Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2022. Several ice fishermen try their luck on the portion of the Clark Fork that is frozen at this locatio... (more)

A family ice fishing watches and waves at a BNSF grain train rumbling over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on the afternoon of February 5, 2022. Not far away on the edge of open water, a quinte... (more)

The blue hour has settled in over the Clark Fork Valley in far western Montana on the eve of February 4, 2022. Just west of Trout Creek, the lead locomotive of a westbound BNSF manifest freight li... (more)

It’s late in the day of February 5, 2022, as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses Bridge 55 over the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana. This location is on Montan... (more)

While a couple tries to catch something from their fishing boat on the Clark Fork, an eastbound BNSF coal empties thunders by over Bridge 57 just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the afternoon of ... (more)

Yesterday’s snowfall has flocked Montana’s Clark Fork Valley as a BNSF grain train passes through Trout Creek while heading west on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision between Miss... (more)

During a crisp winter day in the Clark Fork Valley on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision, a BNSF grain empty rolls eastbound at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 7, 2021.

A BNSF unit coke train heads westbound down the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision passing Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on October 3, 2016.

BNSF GE ES44AC No. 6411 cruises through Trout Creek, Montana, on a coal train operating over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on the afternoon of September 16, 2011.

Another winter storms approaches the Clark Fork Valley of Montana on the afternoon of February 5, 2021, as a westbound BNSF grain train passes through Trout Creek between milepost 56 and 57 on Mon... (more)

A BNSF grain train rolls through the snow on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

It’s just after sunset, and the sinking sun is still flirting with a few red clouds to the west, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty rumbles alongside a frozen Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on ... (more)

Passing clear and calm water of the Clark Fork, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on May 12, 2021.

Flying just below the clouds
Powered by lone GE ES44C4 No. 8068, a westbound BNSF “Boeing Special” passes over the causeway west of Trout Creek, Montana, on October 13, 2017. These ... (more)

The very last sunlight of the day on October 4, 2020, lights up a westbound BNSF coal train crossing the causeway at Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.