Canadian Pacific GP38-2 3084 leads the Make-A-Wish excursion east at Bull River, British Columbia on the afternoon of July 16, 2011. The train is seen here along the Kootenay River.

Canadian Pacific GP38-2 3084 leads the Make-A-Wish excursion east at Elko, British Columbia on the afternoon of July 16, 2011. The train was supposed to have CP 4-6-4 2816, but the engine was side... (more)

With a consist only Montana Rail Link could create, MRL SD40-2 261 leads an SD70ACe and two GP9s on the Night Gas up Evaro Hill on the evening of July 10, 2011. The train has just reached the summ... (more)

The Builder: Amtrak train 7, the Empire Builder, makes its way across the Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana on the evening of July 3, 2011. The train is almost an hour late as it... (more)

Mission Mountain SW1500 1501 switches the Plum Creek lumber mill in Columbia Falls, Montana on the afternoon of June 22, 2011.

Last Light: BNSF grain train GMITTAC9-15H rolls through a tunnel and into the light just east of West Glacier, Montana on June 20, 2011. At other times of the year the light is gone from th... (more)

Winding Road: Washington & Idaho's "Highball" heads south near Spangle, Washington on an early spring day in April, 2011. Leading the train is a GP16, GP30 and FP9.

Fathers Day: On the afternoon of May 11, 2011 a westbond BNSF Railway coal train rolls through DeSmet, Montana on Montana Rail Link's 4th Sub. About to frame up another shot, Tim Franz look... (more)

The Mission Mountain local heads north at Columbia Falls, Montana late on a Friday afternoon in June, 2011.

A westbound Z-Train wraps around a location known to local railfans as Ken Good Curve, just east of West Glacier, Montana. Running along the train, in the Flathead River, is a group of rafters.

With flooding in the Heartland, BNSF dispatched a ballast extra east on June 5, 2011. The train is seen here crossing the Sheep Creek Trestle, just east of Essex, Montana, through the stunning sce... (more)

With flooding in the Heartland, BNSF dispatched a ballast extra east on June 5, 2011. The train is seen here at Java Creek Trestle just east of Essex, Montana on BNSF's Hi-Line Subdivision.

So Fresh, So Clean: Montana Rail Link SD70ACe 4312 leads the Night Gas on the evening of May 23, 2011. The engine is the first of its class to wear the new MRL paint scheme and it carries i... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight train races through Frenchtown, Montana on the afternoon of Thursday, May 12, 2011. The third unit is Montana Rail Link SD70ACe 4312, hitting home rails for the first tim... (more)

A Trio of General Electric Dash-9 locomotives leads a westbound BNSF grain train across Fish Creek Trestle on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision on April 23, 2011.