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| Title: |
Evergreen |
| Description: |
BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 lead the Whitefish Roadswitcher back north from Kalispell, seen running along the Kalispell Sub. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:07:02 PM |
| Location: |
Evergreen, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
435 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2689 Leads the Whitefish Roadswitcher at Columbia Falls |
| Description: |
BNSFs Whitefish Roadswitcher with BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 returns to the mainline at Columbia Falls after working in Kailspell. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2024 Upload Date: 3/25/2025 9:49:26 PM |
| Location: |
Columbia Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
527 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
La Salle |
| Description: |
BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 lead the Whitefish Roadswitcher back north from Kalispell, seen passing the sign for La Salle a few miles from the junction with the mainline in Columbia Falls. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:07:49 PM |
| Location: |
La Salle, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
375 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working Weyerhaeuser |
| Description: |
R-MON8761 with BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 finishes switching out Weyerhaeuser's sawmill on the north side of Kalispell, MT before returning to Whitefish with eleven cars. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:02:43 PM |
| Location: |
Kalispell, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
484 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 3181 & BNSF 2689 |
| Description: |
BNSFs local power for Whitefish lays over at the west end of Whitefish Yard on a Friday afternoon, a few hours after returning from their early morning to and from Kalispell. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:12:19 PM |
| Location: |
Whitefish, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 3181(GP50) BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
405 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS on the Hi-Line |
| Description: |
NS 8068 leads H-NTWPAS with a 1x0x1 style lashup out of a tunnel just east of Conkelley, MT on a sunny Autumn afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/17/2026 11:46:50 PM |
| Location: |
Conkelley, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Tunnel,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8068(ES44AC) |
| Views: |
41 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1928 |
| Description: |
Seen parked at the east end of the yard in Shelby, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:27:54 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1928(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
414 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1953 |
| Description: |
Seen parked at the east end of the yard in Shelby, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:26:30 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1953(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
357 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1985 |
| Description: |
Seen parked at the east end of the yard in Shelby, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:25:41 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1985(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
428 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Shelby Local Power |
| Description: |
Local power for Shelby rests at the west end of the yard on a breezy Saturday in late October. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:41:05 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1985(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
410 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1632 |
| Description: |
One of two sets of SD40-2's is seen at Great Falls Yard; this one being BNSF 1632 - BNSF 1801. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:49:38 PM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1632(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
417 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 136 |
| Description: |
Seen near the shops in Great Falls, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:48:52 PM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 136(GP60M) |
| Views: |
373 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2900 |
| Description: |
Seen at Great Falls, MT |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:43:06 PM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2900(GP39E) |
| Views: |
409 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2893 |
| Description: |
Seen at Great Falls, MT |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:42:39 PM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2893(GP39M) |
| Views: |
510 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak #8 at Shelby |
| Description: |
A late running eastbound Empire Builder makes an afternoon arrival at Shelby, MT seen passing a nice trio of BNSF SD40-2's that were idling at the east end of the yard. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:36:35 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 306(ALC-42) |
| Views: |
378 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Shelby Yard |
| Description: |
The west end of the yard on a breezy Saturday in late October. BNSF 7887 is on the far left, and BNSF 7307 is on the right and will lead the job to Great Falls later that evening. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:33:06 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
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324 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Shelby Yard |
| Description: |
Local power for Shelby rests at the west end of the yard on a breezy Saturday in late October. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:32:31 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1928(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
406 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2893 & BNSF 2900 |
| Description: |
Seen at Great Falls, MT |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 8:48:22 PM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2893(GP39M) BNSF 2900(GP39E) |
| Views: |
572 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Untitled |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 8:59:20 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
12 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Untitled |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 8:59:47 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
10 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1787 |
| Description: |
A pair of BNSF SD40-2's sits at the yard in Great Falls, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/8/2025 11:57:11 AM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1787(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
407 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1771 |
| Description: |
A pair of BNSF SD40-2's sits at the yard in Great Falls, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2024 Upload Date: 6/8/2025 11:57:36 AM |
| Location: |
Great Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1771(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
375 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Switching Whitefish Yard |
| Description: |
The whitefish Switcher with BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 goes about their Sunday evening swiitching duties at the west end of Whitefish, ultimately getting a consist ready for the roadswitcher crew to take east early the next morning. |
| Photo Date: |
10/27/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:13:48 PM |
| Location: |
Whitefish, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
382 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whitefish Roadswitcher Crosses Rt. 2 in Evergreen |
| Description: |
R-MON8761 with BNSF 3181 - BNSF 2689 crosses over the busy Rt. 2 crossing just north of Kalispell on a cloudy early Monday morning in late October. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:15:06 PM |
| Location: |
Evergreen, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 3181(GP50) |
| Views: |
352 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whitefish Roadswitcher at Columbia Falls |
| Description: |
R-MON8761; aka the Whitefish Roadswitcher with BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 trundles through Columbia Falls, MT with a consist from the Weyerhaeuser mill in Columbia Falls as well as the one in Kalispell. Here they will enter the Hi-Line Subdivision and proceed back west to Whitefish. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/2024 Upload Date: 6/7/2025 9:09:35 PM |
| Location: |
Columbia Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
397 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Untitled |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/29/2024 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 9:00:37 PM |
| Location: |
Shelby, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
6 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Untitled |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/29/2024 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 9:01:02 PM |
| Location: |
Power, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
4 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading Home |
| Description: |
BNSF's Whitefish Roadswitcher with BNSF 2689 & BNSF 3181 has a big train in tow going westbound, with not only Weyerhaeuser traffic but also grain hoppers and scrap gondolas from in and near the Kalispell Railpark. They have been recrewed by the Whitefish Yard Switcher crew at Columbia Falls before opening up and running the few miles on the mainline back to Whitefish Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:24:09 AM |
| Location: |
Columbia Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
7 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whitehall |
| Description: |
Besides shooting a few HLCX leasers on Pan Am back home over a decade ago, this is my first time seeing classic cascade green on an actual freight, and a "white face" GP30 bodied one at that! BNSF 2749 & MRL 404 are in charge of the Logan to Whitehall local; R-MON842 spots three covered hoppers at a small transload in Whitehall MT, along what was once the mighty route of Northern Pacific over Homestake Pass to the west of here, now reduced to a mere once a week local as far west as Whitehall by BNSF in the modern day. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:31:54 AM |
| Location: |
Whitehall, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2749(GP39E) |
| Views: |
14 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whitehall |
| Description: |
Besides shooting a few HLCX leasers on Pan Am back home over a decade ago, this is my first time seeing classic cascade green on an actual freight, and a "white face" GP30 bodied one at that! BNSF 2749 & MRL 404 are in charge of the Logan to Whitehall local; R-MON842 spots three covered hoppers at a small transload in Whitehall MT, along what was once the mighty route of Northern Pacific over Homestake Pass to the west of here, now reduced to a mere once a week local as far west as Whitehall by BNSF in the modern day. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:32:13 AM |
| Location: |
Whitehall, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2749(GP39E) |
| Views: |
20 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hilltop Road |
| Description: |
BNSF's Whitefish Roadswitcher with BNSF 2689 & BNSF 3181 makes an early run back north to Whitefish, seen here nearing Columbia Falls with a short train in tow of just six loaded 60ft boxcars from Weyerhaeuser. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:31:19 AM |
| Location: |
Columbia Falls, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
21 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Descending through Blacktail |
| Description: |
The rear DPU on H-MINPAS has two EMD veterans behind it; BNSF 3169 & BNSF 1942 as they wind slowly around the curves in Blacktail, MT a few milles west of the summit. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:26:39 AM |
| Location: |
Blacktail, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1942(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
21 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Like Old Times at Essex |
| Description: |
H-MINPAS has two EMD veterans at the tail end behind their DPU; BNSF 3169 & BNSF 1942, and just for a minute it looks like the days of earlier BNSF on the Hi-Line with pairs of SD40-2's assisting a good portion of the trains up and down Marias Pass. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:24:47 AM |
| Location: |
Essex, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1942(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
12 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working Weyerhaeuser |
| Description: |
BNSF R-MON8761; with the same power set I photographed here the year prior, BNSF 2689 - BNSF 3181 switches out the Weyerhaeuser plant in Kalispell, MT. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2025 Upload Date: 2/21/2026 11:22:49 AM |
| Location: |
Kalispell, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2689(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
4 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSXT 4738 |
| Description: |
Seen leading an eastbound BNSF empty grain train |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/2025 Upload Date: 1/4/2026 11:37:05 PM |
| Location: |
Elliston, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 4738(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
53 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSXT 7210 |
| Description: |
Seen trailing an eastbound BNSF empty grain train |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/2025 Upload Date: 1/4/2026 11:37:30 PM |
| Location: |
Helena, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7210(CM44AC) |
| Views: |
65 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSX 7210 at East Helena |
| Description: |
An eastbound BNSF grain train with CSXT 4738 up front and CSXT 7210 as the rear DPU heads into the west side of Helena MT as a nice sunset illuminates the hills of the city. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/2025 Upload Date: 1/9/2026 10:11:07 PM |
| Location: |
Helena, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7210(CM44AC) |
| Views: |
58 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSXT 7210 at Elliston |
| Description: |
An eastbound BNSF grain train with CSXT 4738 up front and CSXT 7210 as the rear DPU heads through Elliston, MT as they are about to tackle Mullan pass before reaching Helena. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/2025 Upload Date: 1/9/2026 10:10:41 PM |
| Location: |
Elliston, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7210(CM44AC) |
| Views: |
42 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSXT 4738 Leads Eastbound Grain Empties at Elliston |
| Description: |
An eastbound BNSF grain train with CSXT 4738 up front and CSXT 7210 as the rear DPU heads through Elliston, MT as they are about to tackle Mullan pass before reaching Helena. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/2025 Upload Date: 1/9/2026 10:10:13 PM |
| Location: |
Elliston, MT |
| Author: |
Dan Comick |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 4738(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
38 Comments: 0 |
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