An eastbound BNSF stack train rolls through John Stevens Canyon just east of Belton, Montana, along the southern edge of Glacier National Park.

In a scene that could be mistaken for 1928, rather then 2008, Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington Railway 0-4-4T #10 performs a run-by during the museums Annual Picnic on August 10, 2008 at Alna C... (more)

Changing Seasons: The days are getting shorter and snow is starting to dust the mountain tops; winter is in the air in western Montana. In the shadow of those snowcapped peaks, a trio of Mo... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Dirt Local heads east on the evening of September 22. With the conclusion of the Milltown Dam removal, the last loads of dirt will roll east on Thursday.

The Royal Canadian Pacific: As someone who grew up flipping through the pages of "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific," the idea of shooting an A-B-A set of CP F-units leading a passenger tr... (more)

Two Weeks: That's all you have, according to one cog railway employee, to see regular steam on the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. With that in mind I headed up Mt. Washington for the long hike to the... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45-2 311 leads the Day Gas Local through Arlee, Montana on November 25, 2009. The SD45-2 was repainted in early 2009 and features MRLs new image.

Amtrak's Empire Builder enters East Glacier, Mont. on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 19, 2011. Cold winds cut across the plains and through the mountains on this day forcing me to break out a winter... (more)

Under the snow capped Fisher Peak, Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2F No. 9011 leads the McConnell Turn out of Cranbrook, British Columbia on the evening of March 7, 2015. The train will ramb... (more)

Thirty years after the Milwaukee Road pulled up shop on "Lines West," trains still polish old MILW iron in St. Maries, Idaho. Seen here on March 31, 2010, SW1200 No. 502 shoves a cut of cars east ... (more)

Amtrak's Number Five, The California Zephyr, rolls through DeBeque, Colorado on the afternoon of Sunday, August 15, along the route of the old Denver, Rio Grande and Western.

SD40-2s in the Southern Interior: A pair of Canadian Pacific Railway SD40-2s roll along Columbia Lake on the Windermere Subdivision on Oct. 11, 2014. What was once the domaine of Fairbanks ... (more)

The morning train from Albion has just come in from the north as the small flag stop of Alna Center comes alive on this summer day in 1928. In reality its 2008 and the train is a recreation by the... (more)

BNSF 5343 leads a westbound rail train at Marias, Montana on the afternoon of October 12, 2008. Snow has already fallen in the mountains making for icy conditions for railfans partaking in the ann... (more)

One has to wonder how many times photographers like Richard Steinheimer, Ted Benson, and Ron Nixon stood on the platform of the Missoula, Montana Milwaukee Depot. Their hope? The headlight of a MI... (more)