Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest freight streaks through Lombard, Montana during an awesome light show courtesy of Mother Nature. I'm standing on the abutment of the old Milwaukee R... (more)

BNSF eastbound local R-NWE8451-17 blasts out of a tunnel in the Columbia River Gorge east of Cooks, Washington, on a gorgeous day. BNSF GP39E 2741 (former CB&Q rebuilt GP30) leads the train.

A Montana Rail Link work train with SD40-2XR no. 259 leading glides across the Clark Fork River in Clark Fork, Idaho. The 259 was rebuilt from former Burlington Northern no. 6324.

A Durango & Silverton train with a K-36 pulling, rounds the curves along the cliffs edge, and above the Animas River near Rockwood, Colorado. Unfortunately, the Animas has an unsavory orange hue t... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train rolls along the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon, as the Northern Lights dance overhead. This is on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision between Toston and Lombard, Mont... (more)

A BNSF Railway V-AUBKCK train (Vehicles-Auburn, Washington-Kansas City, Kansas) waits on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision main during a gorgeous moonlit evening in Lombard Canyon. Lombard, Mont... (more)

What's left of Montana Rail Link SD45-2 No. 301 is lifted off of its front truck for the last time. The contract worker is cutting the last appendage (a speed recorder cable) before the crane lift... (more)

Electrician Ben Hampson rewires the control stand of former Wisconsin Central No. 3025. The GP40 was acquired by MRL when CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Co.) closed in 2009. It sat indoors in L... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Railway J-INBWIC9-20 "Boeing Train" rolls along the mostly frozen Frog Pond and the Clark Fork River west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivisio... (more)

Three Florida East Coast Champion ES44C4s (818, 800, 809) lead FEC train 101-13 across Spruce Creek just south of Spruce Creek siding.

Probably the only good thing about forest fires is that when the smoke is in the air, it makes for some pretty colorful sunrises and sunsets. At 7:25 a.m., a westbound coal train heads through the... (more)

In October 1997, Union Pacific called out rotary snowplow No. 900082 and support train to clear the Kansas Pacific Line in eastern Colorado. Here it is in Arapahoe, Colorado at sunset.

SIX Montana Rail Link SD45s lead a BNSF Spokane to Laurel manifest freight (M-SPOLAU1-07) through Manhattan, Montana, on MRL's 2nd Subdivision. MRL has 12 SD45s (SD45-2s) leased to the BNSF. Six t... (more)

A Canadian National freight rolls southbound under the old Arthur Road overpass just north of Slinger, Wisconsin.

A northbound Canadian National freight rolls through Rugby Junction, Wisconsin. Leading the train is CN Dash 8 No. 2128.