Three Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XRs (rebuilt SD40s), Nos. 251, 253 and 255, power BNSF’s freight between Spokane and Laurel as it begins its descent of Winston Hill at Winston, Montana, on Jul... (more)

Three Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XRs (rebuilt SD40s), Nos. 251, 253 and 255, power BNSF’s freight between Spokane and Laurel as it tops Winston Hill at Winston, Montana, on July 6, 2018.

Three Montana Rail Link SD45s lead BNSF’s MSPOLAU freight eastbound through Belknap, Montana, on the morning of October 4, 2014. Trailing in the all-EMD consist is BNSF GP39-2, SD70MAC and SD70A... (more)

The still morning of October 2, 2014, reveals fog lifting off a dead calm surface of the Clark Fork as an eastbound BNSF MSPOLAU freight crosses the bridge west of Noxon, Montana. Bracketing a tri... (more)

Morning fog is just about burned off as BNSF’s MSPOLAU freight crosses a calm Clark Fork west of Noxon, Montana, on October 2, 2014. Bracketing a trio of Montana Rail Link SD45s (Rebuilt by MRL ... (more)

Rumbling along the Clark Fork west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the morning of October 4, 2014, is eastbound BNSF MSPOLAU with an all-EMD seven locomotive consist. Three MRL SD45s lead orange GP39-... (more)

Steam rises into cold air as fog has just about burned off on the morning of October 2, 2014. Silence is broken on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision when eastbound BNSF MSPOLAU (Spokane to ... (more)

Early morning light has just cleared the mountains near Springdale, Montana, fifteen miles east of Livingston as this manifest highballs eastbound with three paint schemes represented.

Lombard Canyon reflections
Traversing Lombard Canyon on the morning of September 15, 2012, an eastbound BNSF freight (probably a combined BNSF Spokane-Laurel/Montana Rail Link Missoula-... (more)