BNSF's Marias Pass: A Railroad Superhighway

SHELBY, MONTANA -- June 2018

The northernmost railroad crossing of the continental divide in the United States, Marias Pass was completed by the Great Northern in the 1890s, and has served ever since as a busy corridor for both freight and passengers - with the lauded Empire Builder still passing through each day under the Amtrak banner.

Under BNSF, traffic on the line has only grown, with huge volumes of intermodal and bulk commodities such as grain mixing in with the manifest freights, sometimes pushing fluidity to the limit.

In this railroad documentary, we'll begin in Shelby and follow the line all the way to Whitefish, stopping along the way to view the many trains of the line and the gorgeous mountain scenery. This is certainly a line worth checking out in person if you ever get the chance - just be on the lookout for those Grizzly Bears!!

Timestamps:
1:20 Shelby
4:51 Ethridge
5:23 Cut Bank
9:28 Sundance
10:45 Fort Piegan
13:41 Blackfoot
15:16 Browning
16:32 East Glacier Park
21:15 Bison
23:09 Summit
24:30 Nimrod / Snowshed No. 8
25:36 Goat Lick
28:26 Essex
32:08 Paola
33:00 Tunnel 3.8
34:51 Belton / West Glacier Park
39:53 Coram
41:20 Columbia Falls
44:42 Whitefish

Curious about how the railroads in this video are laid out on the map? Check out my Google Map Overlay of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Railroads, via this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GeS...

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Videography Equipment:
Primary: Sony FDR-AX53 4K Camcorder
Secondary: Sony HDR-PJ790V HD Camcorder
Aerial Platform: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Drone
Radio Scanner: Uniden Bearcat BC125AT
Edited with: Cyberlink PowerDirector 16

Created by Alex Christmas. Copyright 2018, as the Thornapple River Rail Series, All Rights Reserved