Searchlight signals protect the west end of Winston siding atop Winston Hill on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the afternoon of July 2, 2018. Slowly climbing the grade from Townsend i... (more)

Cresting the top of Montana’s Winston Hill on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision east of Helena is a westbound BNSF coal train on the afternoon of July 2, 2018.

A BNSF ES44AC, an SD70ACe and an SD70MAC make for an interesting lash-up, as they roll down the Transcon, just west of LPC.

With tornado sirens screaming all around me indicating the dangerous weather moving into the area, I remained in a sucker hole with the sun breaking through with just enough to light up the yard. ... (more)

Switching at Northtown

A couple SD40-2s work part of Northtown.

BN green, ATSF blue and yellow, BNSF orange and green, NREX gray, and Conrail Quality blue provide a backdrop as BNSF 6332 noses under the Saint Anthony Parkway overpass.

I had never seen a remote control equipped SD40-2 before, and today I have seen two. Whiteface BNSF 6332 works the south end of the yard as contruction continues on double-tracking the Soo Line ov... (more)

Yard switcher 6332 works the bowl tracks as a stack train heads east...

This SD40u works the yard while a CP stacker train passes overhead

BNSF 6332 switching the south end of Northtown yard

Remote control operated

Remote control SD40. Note the engineer standing on the front