A BNSF Railway coal train headed to Centralia, Washington, skirts Frog Pond, and the Clark Fork River west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision.

On Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision, a westbound BNSF manifest freight curves out of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 21, 2012.

BNSF 9314 rolls a westbound coal train over the bridge at Tuscor, MT, the first passing siding west of Trout Creek. The train is operating on Montana Rail Link along the shore of the Clark Fork en... (more)

BNSF 6850 and 4371 lead a manifest westbound across the causeway in Trout Creek, MT.

With low clouds still veiling the distant mountains, a BNSF coal train heads west at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 10, 2014, kicking up its own snowstorm on this cold winter morning.

Anticipation
Winter air is laden with moisture and a light fog swirls in the airy blue hour of dusk on January 25, 2013. Stillness of the moment is broken as a distant air horn blowing ... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.

Kicking up the heels
Now that winter’s icy grip has arrived, another scene from this past autumn feels a bit nicer and warmer. On October 2, 2013, at Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Mon... (more)

As a couple of ice fisherman try their luck at the inlet where Trout Creek enters the upper region of the Noxon Reservoir (Clark Fork), an eastbound BNSF grain train (XTACHWM) crosses the bridge a... (more)

BNSF’s HKCKPAS manifest freight passes an iced-over Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 24, 2013. I’m not sure why the train has such a gargantuan locomotive consist; Seven... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train curves into the afternoon sun west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the wonderful spring day of May 19, 2011.

An eastbound BNSF freight train crosses the impressive truss bridge over the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January, 26, 2013.

On the Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision, a BNSF grain train heads east across Bridge 55 and over the clear waters of Trout Creek west of Trout Creek, Montana.

The DPUs (9326 and 9463) of an eastbound BNSF grain train pass along a frozen Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 26, 2013.

High country reflection
With clouds still stubbornly clinging to the mountaintops after dusting the high country with snow, the sun breaks out briefly and illuminates a BNSF freight pas... (more)