St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 502 heads back towards the St. Maries yard after switching the Stimson Lumber Mill. The track the engine is on was once part of the Milwaukee Road Pacific Exte... (more)

Heritage on the Hi-Line: Ice cold winds whip across the northern plains to greet Norfolk Southern heritage unit No. 8114, dressed in the red and black of the original Norfolk Southern Railw... (more)

Flares Down the Fourth: With sets of SD45-2s running on a railroad that hasn't changed much since the 1970s (Note the Northern Pacific cantilever signal and telegraph wires) it's easy to se... (more)

Dusk at Denton: On a quiet September night, Central Montana GP9 1814 waits in the small yard at Denton, Mont. for the following day's assignment. Less than 12 hours later, the locomotive wo... (more)

Southern Pacific Heritage: Daylight 4-8-4 No. 4449 wasn't the only piece of SP heritage running in Oregon last week. On Monday, Oct. 22, SP SD9 No. 5399 was hauling revenue freight on the A... (more)

Flares Through the Flathead: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s pull an eastbound manifest freight out of BNSF Railway's Whitefish, Montana yard just moments after sunset on January 20, 20... (more)

Surrounded: St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 502 is literally surrounded by the life blood of its employer and owner. Logs and lumber have been the key to the roads existence since it started ... (more)

This Is The End: In recent months, nearly a dozen Montana Rail Link SD45-2s have been sold and scrapped in Livingston, Mont. and these three locomotives – leading BNSF Railway's H-KCKSPO1... (more)

The Kootenay Express: Forget what year it is and remove the radio tower and the ditch lights. For a second, think that it's 1953, not 2013, and that this is the Kootenay Express, not the Ro... (more)

Fall and Fog on the Great Northern: Even if the timetables read 'BNSF Railway,' this piece of railroad in Northwest Montana will always be James J. Hill's creation: The Great Northern Railw... (more)

GONE: On the afternoon of Oct. 28, 2008, the log yard at Clarkia, Idaho was a busy place, as the empty St. Maries River Railroad train arrives to pick up another train of logs headed for th... (more)

Clash of Seasons: Sometimes the weather in Montana can be just downright absurd. Take for example this image, taken on Sept. 13, a full 10 days before summer is officially over, of an eastb... (more)

Derailment at West Glacier: BNSF Railway employees work through the rain, after an eastbound stack train derailed near West Glacier, Mont. just before 3 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The d... (more)

Winter on the Hi-Line: Winter comes early to Montana's Hi-Line and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, as seen in this image from Oct. 29, 2013 of a westbound BNSF Railway grain train slowly ... (more)

"Where the trunk means Washington County:" That's the conclusion that Ben Bachman may have come to if his pivotal two part series on the Vermont's River Line, published in the January and Febuary ... (more)