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While driving along the Yellowstone River one winter afternoon, admiring the landscape, photographer MARK MILLER spotted a freight train moving toward the distant Crazy Mountains. “The scene was already gorgeous, with the golden grasses and snow and mountains, and then here is this wonderful train,” says Miller, of Gardiner. “I went up a dirt road and got out, and as the train came by, all the compositional elements came together in my mind and I took a series of photographs. What I like about trains is that they are timeless, like mountains, like so much of Montana. The look and the sound of a train is something someone could have seen and heard 100 years ago, and that timelessness seemed to fit real well into that natural landscape.” ■