A pair of CSX GE AC6000CWs lead BNSF westbound freight MLAUPAS on the Montana Rail Link at Trout Creek, Montana, on September 14, 2011. CSX owns 117 of these 6000 horsepower locomotives.

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Montana Rail Link’s Missoula to Laurel (ML) freight curves through Lombard Canyon, Montana, on a beautiful August 9, 1996. On the point is F45 No. 391, leading three other big blue EMDs.

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On an incredibly snowy November 1, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern freight train works over Marias Pass near Summit, Montana. This Halloween 1991 snowstorm effected much of the northern part of the country and gave it an early taste of winter.

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Moonlight over Lombard: At 8:43 p.m. on the night of September 9, 2011, a BNSF coal train curves into Lombard, Montana, under a bright moon. Headlights of the westbound train lights up the rails of the main line and siding, as well as a pile of rail lying between. The train is about to rumble over the girder bridge spanning Sixteenmile Creek, probably more famous a few miles to the east where it once shared space with the Milwaukee Road through Sixteenmile Canyon. The vantage point for the photo is the long-abandoned grade of the Milwaukee.

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A BNSF coal train lights up the cliffs that tower above the Montana Rail Link main line at Lombard, Montana, on the evening of September 9, 2011 at 8:43 p.m. The last light of day slowly recedes in a western horizon as the headlights of the train lead the way through the increasing darkness of a serpentine canyon.

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