Amtrak #7, The Empire Builder, departs Essex, MT after a brief stop at the platform.
The Empire Builder slows for its station stop at Essex, MT on a gloomy morning in the Rocky Mountains.
BNSF ET44C4 3962 leads a short 14 car Longview, WA - Glasgow, MT MOW train east at Columbia Falls, MT.
The storm that left a skiff of snow in its wake still shrouds the peaks of Glacier National Park in light snow and fog on the morning of March 1, 1992. In a different look at a popular location, T... (more)
A couple Burlington Northern SD60M's 9298, and 9277. Are work a Montana coal branch. (Tom Ellis photo)
The water is calm along the Clark Fork on the hot afternoon of June 30, 2021, as a westbound BNSF coal train rumbles by on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision main line between Noxon a... (more)
MRL SD40-2XR 251 departs Logan onto the 5th Sub with a short train for the Magris Talc plant at Three Forks.
MRL SD40-2XR 251 flies over to Three Forks from Logan with a short train for the Magris Talc plant.
MRL's 844 local services the talc plant at Three Forks.
CSXT ET44AC 3244 climbs out of Helena, MT leading a loaded Loomis, SD - Tacoma, WA ethanol train up Mullan Pass.
Looking so sweet in evening light, MRL SD40-2XRs 255 and 250 head into Livingston.
Coal loads exit the Bozeman Tunnel.
With Helper #3 shoving hard (out of sight) on the rear, BNSF ET44C4 3797 gets a run at Bozeman Pass with a loaded coal train in tow.
BNSF ES44C4 7968 leads a loaded coal train into Livingston.
Helper #2 takes a ride into Livingston on the tailend of the U PTWELX after shoving it over Bozeman Pass.