It's Christmas Eve and a call to the trainmaster in Whitefish said not much would be running over the pass this day. After shooting a late running Amtrak 8 I was on my way to return the rented sn... (more)
It's two degrees at the crest of the continent in northern Montana, and this stranger from south of the border surely never feels temperatures like these on her home road. Nevertheless she and a ... (more)
Hotshot Z intermodal Chicago- Seattle takes track two down the west slope of Marias Pass around track work on MT1.
Westbound grain train on Marias Pass on a beautiful fall day.
In full dynamic braking, this Pasco bound westbound winds its way down Marias Pass.
BNSF Westbound Freight
A bit of variety NS/FURX/NREX/MRL
Looking forward from the coupola of BN Caboose 12041 on the Essex Work Train, we can see the exhaust from our motor and the hulk of BNSF Jordan Spreader 972657 as we head to Glacier Park East to u... (more)
Looking forward from the cupola of BN caboose 12041, we can see that the motor of our short work train is about to pass approach signal 1106.02 and enter one of several snow sheds on the pass.
End of train device BNQ 11582 hangs onto BN caboose 12041 for dear life as concrete crossties and ballast blur by. This shot is from the rear platform of the caboose on the Essex work train as we... (more)
Eastbound empty grain train
Eastbound
BNSF 784 leads a westbound stack train and has just made its way over the summit of Marias Pass.
BNSF 4429 leads a WB pig train through Marias Pass. The 2nd & 3rd EMD units are painted in one of BNSF’s earlier paint schemes.
