Looking West from the Summit of Marias Pass near the exact location John F. Stevens peered a winter December 1889 day Burlington Northern SD-40 #6924 assists the Eastbound “Empire Builder” through a 1985 blizzard

On Track Two at Milepost #1086.3 [hence the number 210863] Burlington Northern Santa Fe General Electric CW44-9W #1105 leads a Westbound grain train through a late winter snowstorm a few miles East of Cutbank

Lewistown is located in a “snow hole” - it can be a blizzard in town and just up on the hill, no snow at all. During one of those 1997 “snow events” - the Lewistown Local switches cars near the stockyards on the old Milwaukee Road tracks to Great Falls