An eastbound BNSF coal empty follows the placid backwaters of the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on July 3, 2022.

At 9:29 p.m., a last minute drop under sunset highlights an eastbound BNSF grain train between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on July 2, 2022. From the Kansas City Southern GE ES44AC leader, Engineer J... (more)

Brilliant light of the setting sun illuminates a westbound BNSF manifest freight cruising along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, at 8:47 p.m. on June 30, 2022.

A line of clouds march upriver, following some severe storms that have passed through the Clark Fork Valley just to the east, as an eastbound BNSF grain train follows the same waterway between Her... (more)

Low hanging fog hangs to the mountains along the Noxon Reservoir at Trout Creek, MT on MRL's 4th subdivision as a westbound BNSF loaded coal cruises across the trestle.

Rain Drops! Rain Drops tap the calm backwater along the banks of the Clark Fork River as this eastbound empty grain train rolls toward the severe weather ahead, The storm to upper right... (more)

The high temperature in Noxon, Montana, on June 30, 2021, was 102°F. On this hot day, a westbound BNSF oil train curves over a fill along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, engineer waving t... (more)

On June 27, 2020, a westbound BNSF coal train arcs through the curved fill along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision.

BN 7244 leads a quintet of SD40-2s east with an empty coal train along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Tuscor, MT. This is former NP trackage, would become Montana Rail Link in 1987, and likely w... (more)

BN 7615 leads a westbound grain train across the Clark Fork near Noxon, MT crossing a bridge constructed by the Army Corps. of Engineers as part of a line relocation project done for Northern Paci... (more)

Winter vista west of Noxon
The mountains in western Montana are frosted with fresh snow as a BNSF manifest freight rolls eastbound along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana,... (more)

My nephew Charlie waves from his paddle board at the engineer of an eastbound BNSF coal train rolling along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on July 1, 2021.

On the afternoon of June 30, 2021, a westbound BNSF coal train projects a perfect reflection on the backwaters of the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana.

A westbound BNSF grain train on Montana Rail link’s Fourth Subdivision, crosses the Clark Fork just west of Noxon, Montana, on October 3, 2020.

An eastbound BNSF double grain empty curves through the flocked evergreens during a Montana snowstorm between Heron and Noxon on February 6, 2021. It’s snowing hard enough that you can’t read ... (more)