Return Trip - Montana Resources, Butte, Montana

A CAT 793F 240-ton truck rolls along under the big Montana sky, headed for more to haul. Read a little more about these particular big beauties in this article in Butte's local paper, The Montana Standard.

Gothic Arch Glass At Lydia's - Butte, Montana

Butte, Montana's iconic Lydia's Supper Club features a collection of 33 amazing stained glass windows, framed and backlit, as the primary wall decor. Today's sampling hangs in the bar and is described thus: "No. 20  Gothic arch stained glass with antiqued engraving in the rear. Red and green. From a church in Bath, England. 1798."

Freight Train - Missoula, Montana

"Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots."

 - Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

Forest Fire After - Livingston, Montana

"...But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black with smoke, and the bloodied sun just barely visible...."

 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

Orange Thoughts - Missoula, Montana

"I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word orange."

- Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl, #7)

Telegraph - Livingston Depot - Livingston, Montana

"The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!"

- Noam Chomsky

Elevated - Livingston, Montana

"What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?"

- Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Princess Ben

Upper Window View From The Depot - Livingston,Montana

The view from inside one iconic building out to another: the Livingston Depot's stairwell window looks out to The Murray Hotel and sunny downtown Livingston. 

From Memorial Day to Labour Day, the depot is home to the fascinating railroad memorabilia of The Depot Center Museum. We spent the hottest part of Sunday afternoon browsing through the heyday of passenger train traffic through Livingston, which for many years was the hopping-on point for tourist trains to Yellowstone National Park.  
A short trek upstairs brings you to a display of movies shot in or near Livingston, from black-and-white era Westerns to the 2016 drama "Certain Women", with a fair selection of foreign films and comedies in between. Oh, and let's not forget "A River Runs Through It". 
The museum was one highlight in a lovely summer afternoon, and definitely merits a return visit.