The Malt Job rolls across the Missouri River bridge at Rainbow Falls on its return trip into Great Falls.
Flares Through the Flathead: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s pull an eastbound manifest freight out of BNSF Railway's Whitefish, Montana yard just moments after sunset on January 20, 20... (more)
Engine 7723 leads a westbound freight along the southern border of Glacier National Park, Montana.
After being delayed several hours due to an engine failure, the dispatcher asked the CP 8856 North if they would like to just tie down at Dutton, a few miles south of where we were set up. Much to... (more)
On a surprisingly warm autumn morning, a shiny ES44DC leads an eastbound PASKCK down the 2.2% of Evaro Hill and across the massive Marent Gulch Trestle. The cars on the head end are empty Boeing p... (more)
The sound of an approaching westbound train could be heard for several minutes coming down the valley out of the Cabinet Gorge, until at last the Centralia-bound unit coal train came roaring out o... (more)
Four ex-NP F units lift Amtrak Train 10 eastbound out of Butte, Montana (background) as the “Mainstreeter” climbs up to Homestake Pass on July 31, 1973.
Can you hear it? The faint rumble of EMD 710's echo off the evergreens of the Helena National Forest, slowly getting closer and closer. Then it appears, a quartet of freshly washed ... (more)
A westbound BNSF grain train crosses Fish Creek Trestle at Rivulet, Montana, on May 15, 2013. This 576-foot trestle is officially known as MRL Bridge 165, and was used in a few key scenes in the S... (more)
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crosses the Clark Fork and passes the mile 210.3 semaphore east of Quinns, Montana, on June 30, 2000.
Santa Fe silver and red might not be as fitting here as the orange and green on the trailing GE but the wind-sculpted snow bank certainly is.
A southbound Yellowstone Valley freight train crosses the Missouri River, near Snowden, MT on Oct. 2, 2007 with GP38-3 No. 3836.
The Miles City Turn has departed Terry and heads for points West, catching a glimpse of sun after a brief thunderstorm.
The steep grade of the branch up to Harrison is evident in the construction of this piling trestle a few miles north of town.
Montana Rail Link's local down the Bitterroot Branch (9th Subdivision) rolls across a small trestle and past an old downed tree in the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge north of Stevensville, M... (more)
