BNSF 7299 leads a westbound stack train toward a setting sun as it climbs the east slope of Mullan Pass just east of Austin siding, Austin, MT, on the Montana Rail Link.

A westbound BNSF double-stack train exits Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on the afternoon of June 28, 2016.

Mt Rainier is fully visible, and while I was thankful for a train I really wanted to capture the Coast Starlight.

A "silvered up" Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z train rolls west by the old grain elevator at Lebo, still in use by a local CO-OP, on the shortest day of the year.

A northbound BNSF Z train makes its way through the green pastures of North Texas.