SD45 under a rainbow
On July 2, 2019, after a rainy crossing of Bozeman Pass, Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Bozeman local hits a pocket of late evening sunshine as it descends the west... (more)

A BNSF grain empty crosses the bridge over the inlet of Swamp Creek into the Noxon Reservoir on June 29, 2019. Some sort of variety of wild rose is blooming in the foreground along waters edge add... (more)

Casting a soft reflection in the backwaters of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon, a BNSF freight rumbles east toward Lombard, Montana, on September 21, 2009.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight crosses Bridge 208 over the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision at Donlan, Montana, on September 5, 1999. Two GE C44-9Ws in warbonnet colo... (more)

A colorful locomotive consist leads BNSF HPASKCK dropping downgrade on Mullan Pass approaching the west siding switch at Austin, Montana, on September 12, 2010. BNSF warbonnet C44-9W No. 729 leads... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest freight) approaching Greycliff, Montana, on the afternoon of October 3, 2005. The train will be treading through snow by the... (more)

Dressed in warbonnet red, Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 747 thunders westward with a freight past the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5071 leads an eastbound BNSF freight through the mile 196.3 semaphores at East St. Regis, Montana, on the morning of September 7, 1998.

A westbound BNSF freight begins the climb of Mullan Pass leaving Helena at Tobin, Montana, on June 29, 2017. The grade increases to 1.3 percent here, but will reach 2.2 percent further up the pass... (more)

Burlington Northern train 123 climbs the steep grade of Mullan Pass with all-Montana Rail Link power as it works through the curves above Austin, Montana, on August 28, 1993. Up front, MRL SD45 No... (more)

Rumbling along the banks of the Missouri River, a westbound BNSF freight journeys through Lombard Canyon just west of the siding at near sunset on June 29, 2016.

MRL SD40 no. 251 and mate work a freight east having just left Big Timber, MT. The train is occupying Northern Pacific's former mainline along the Yellowstone River with the Crazy Mountains provid... (more)

With everything in the picture on the chopping block, all too soon this will be looked back on as "the good old days".

Not many people thought we'd see flares back on the mountain in 2019... Still retaining their 20 cylinder 645's, an SD45 leads an equally scarce GP35 as they start up the east slope of Bozeman Pas... (more)

As parts of the Midwest hit temps around -50, I was thankful to be in a much more manageable 40 degree state. Making it even more enjoyable were these classic 40's wheeling around a chilly Yellows... (more)