The air is heavy with humidity in Montana’s Clark Fork River Valley with fog rolling through the the tree-covered mountains as a BNSF freight marches west through the moist conditions at Trout Cre... (more)

BNSF DPU no. 6104 has it pretty easy as it cruises eastbound on the rear of an empty coal train on Montana Rail Link near Trout Creek, MT. The train is along a pond just west of town.

Snow is falling during dusk’s blue hour on February 3, 2019, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty curves by milepost 57 west of Trout Creek, Montana.

The snowstorm hasn’t arrived yet, but humidity is high in Montana’s Clark Fork River Valley, with fog rolling through the atmosphere at multiple levels playing hide-and-seek with the tree-covered ... (more)

A BNSF empty grain shuttle rolls across the Clark Fork at the bridge at MP 57 near Trout Creek, MT between sun breaks and snow showers on Montana Rail Link.

An eastbound BNSF stack train rumbles across Bridge 57 over the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on May 20, 2011.

Fog over the Clark Fork valley is still lifting and burning off on the morning of October 14, 2018, as a westbound BNSF coal train sprints across Bridge 55 at trout Creek, Montana.

The days last sunlight greets an eastbound empty coal train as it crosses the causeway at Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link. The train is en route from Hauser, ID to Missou... (more)

BNSF 8411 races across Trout Creek at Trout Creek with a westbound coal train headed for Roberts Bank and export. The trackage in Montana Rail Link, but on the west end one may not see a blue unit... (more)

On the calm afternoon of October 13, 2018, A BNSF coal empty casts an almost perfect reflection in Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, traveling east on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivisio... (more)

5:24 p.m. on a tranquil winter evening at Trout Creek, Montana, sees an eastbound BNSF grain train reflecting in the open waters of where Trout Creek flows into the Clark Fork, ending another nice... (more)

A BNSF coal train makes its way west on the Montana Rail Link near Trout Creek, MT along the frog pond formed by the causeway along the Clark Fork. Fall is in the foreground, but winter is in the ... (more)

BNSF 7377 leads a Montana Rail Link grain train west over the causeway west of Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork. The main river has open water, but the frog pond is frozen over and covered wit... (more)

BNSF 6310 leads an eastbound coal empty across the causeway at the frog pond at Trout Creek, MT with fall in the foreground and winter just above in the background. This is part of Montana Rail Li... (more)

BNSF 9230 leads an empty coal train over the Clark Fork at bridge 57 near Trout Creek, MT under somewhat threatening skies.