The ice is slowly melting as the sun pops out on a westbound BNSF coal train passing Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 6, 2016.

Led by warbonnet-dressed GE C44-9W No. 775, an eastbound BNSF freight skirts Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 22, 2012.

Blue light at Miller time at Trout Creek, MT. The last shot of the day was this empty rail train rolling east at the frozen over frog pond on the causeway just west of town along the Clark Fork on... (more)

Light fog swirls in over the Clark Fork with night settling in over western Montana as an eastbound BNSF rail train curves toward Trout Creek late in the blue hour on February 5, 2016.

As evening approaches on February 4, 2016, a westbound BNSF grain train rumbles out of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Bread and butter for Montana Rail Link. A BNSF grain train waits in the siding at Tuscor, MT about 9 miles west of Trout Creek, while an empty coal train returning from Robert's Bank, BC rolls eas... (more)

Mountains cast an almost perfect reflection in the outflow of Trout Creek as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2016.

An eastbound BNSF freight crosses the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on September 27, 2013. Pick a scheme…any scheme…

A re-routed Q-train led by a new Tier 4 GE, no. 3923 rolls across the frog pond along the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, MT. During our visit here, Montana Rail Link was quite busy with re-route ... (more)

BNSF 5072 and mate roll a westbound manifest towards Spokane, WA on the Montana Rail Link just west of Trout Creek, MT. It's a beautiful fall afternoon as shadows start to creep across the pond.

BNSF SD70ACe 8574 leads a "vintage" SD70MAC and a GEVO on an eastbound empty coal train at the frog pond west of Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link.

BNSF 7949 leads two CSX units on an eastbound Montana Rail Link freight at MP 57 near Trout Creek, MT with fall colors on full display.

Surrounded by the colors of autumn during a pastel sunset, an eastbound BNSF Z train rumbles over the causeway along Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on October 2, 2015. A new ET44C4 leads ... (more)

BNSF 7423 serves as a DPU on a Montana Rail Link eastbound grain empty unit train on the causeway at Trout Creek, MT. It's George Washington's birthday, and the frog pond is frozen over, but snow ... (more)

BNSF 9196 leads an all EMD consist on a westbound coal train across the causeway near Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork. Late afternoon light, smoke from area fires and fall colors combine to c... (more)