Montana Rail Link EMD SD19-1 No. 651, a prototype rebuild of a SD9 from MRL’s Livingston Shop, rests at Paradise, Montana, after a week of work on the Paradise local on September 22, 2006. A cle... (more)

With the collapse of Montana Rail Link’s Yellowstone River Bridge near Reed Point under the weight of MLAUMIS on June 24, 2023, and the subsequent severing of a busy main line, MRL and BNSF had ... (more)

The old Dixon, Montana, depot still stood on September 15, 2010, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty meets the westbound Montana Rail Link night gas local at Dixon siding. Meets are somewhat unusual o... (more)

Eight GE and EMD locomotives are leading Union Pacific’s MNYRO westbound as it approaches Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Eisele, Colorado, on February 9, 2015.

Soo Line EMD SD60M No. 6058 leads a hot Soo westbound freight, heavy with auto parts cars destined for St. Paul, approaching Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 4, 1993.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight passes the west siding switch of Leyden while descending the Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision in Colorado on December... (more)

I can almost hear the cicadas along this neat country road on a hot, humid and hazy September 11, 1988, at Pinola Indiana. Around the curve rolls a westbound Conrail coal train headed for Chicago.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local switches Thompson River Lumber Company at Woodlin east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 24, 2013.

The SD60MACs that EMD painted for Burlington Northern were tested thoroughly, and the merits of A.C. traction burgeoned. BN signed a $675 million order for 350 4,000 hp A.C. traction SD70MACs from... (more)

Santa Fe’s Q train out of Big Lift (Denver) utilizing Colorado’s Joint Line is about to cross the small trestle at mile 698.6 between Tomah and Larkspur, Colorado, on July 10, 1989. Santa Fe E... (more)

It looks and feels more like winter on April 15, 2013, in front of North Yard tower at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande facility in Denver, Colorado.

A Union Pacific fuel track employee trundles out into the heavily falling snow to his next assignment at UP’s North Yard locomotive facility on April 15, 2013.

Montana Rail Link’s office car special is cleaned by a contractor at the platforms by Missoula’s former Northern Pacific station before another trip on October 7, 2005. Dennis Washington, the ... (more)

HPASKCK in Lombard Canyon
An interesting locomotive consist pulls BNSF’s HPASKCK along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on September 12, 2010. ... (more)