A BNSF grain train rolls through the snow on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

It’s just after sunset, and the sinking sun is still flirting with a few red clouds to the west, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty rumbles alongside a frozen Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on ... (more)

Passing clear and calm water of the Clark Fork, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on May 12, 2021.

Flying just below the clouds
Powered by lone GE ES44C4 No. 8068, a westbound BNSF “Boeing Special” passes over the causeway west of Trout Creek, Montana, on October 13, 2017. These ... (more)

The very last sunlight of the day on October 4, 2020, lights up a westbound BNSF coal train crossing the causeway at Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

A pair of BNSF C44-9W's lead a westbound grain train across bridge 55 at Trout Creek.

The blue hour is approaching as an eastbound BNSF coal empty rolls eastbound on Montana Rail link’s Fourth Subdivision at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

Winter reflection
Mountains lining the Clark Fork Valley cast a reflection in the confluence of Trout Creek as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Monta... (more)

A BNSF unit oil train rumbles over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, as it heads east on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision on June 30, 2020.

The sky darkens, signaling winter storms approaching the Clark Fork Valley of Montana on the afternoon of February 5, 2021, as a westbound BNSF grain train crosses the causeway separating Frog Pon... (more)

Winter along the Clark Fork
Scenery in the Clark Fork Valley is flocked with a recent snowfall as a westbound BNSF grain train passes through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

During a Montana snowstorm, BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek. Interesting that the buffer car, along with the one ag... (more)

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link is a BNSF grain empty at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 7, 2021.

It’s getting toward sunset on February 5, 2021, as an eastbound BNSF unit oil train empty cruises over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana.

The storm has passed leaving everything glazed with winter in the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF grain train heads west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on Februar... (more)