A typical winter day in Montana: Big skies, frigidly cold, impressive mountains looming on the horizon, and a wind-scoured landscape with drifts of snow piled in the lee of every contour. Through this scene rolls BNSF's daily high-priority Pasco-Galesburg manifest, leaning into the classic curve just west of Browning with another trainload of manufactured goods from the Northwest in trail.
Landscape photography is difficult due to the challenge of combining good light and good scenery. Good railroad photography enters another level of complexity since it requires the first two while there is a train in view.