Montana Rail Link Part 2: The West End

In the 2nd half of the last part of our MRL series, we take a look at the west end of the MRL from Garrison to Thompson Falls. We mainly came out here to see the Gas Local operations, but also caught several other trains in this video. I hope you enjoy this next part, and more uploads are on the way, thanks for watching!

Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:07) BNSF Manifest EB at Clinton, MT

(2:54) BNSF Manifest EB at Jens, MT

(5:40) BNSF Q SPOATL EB at Clinton, MT

(7:56) Night Gas climbing Evaro Hill

(12:12) Night Gas at Arlee, MT

(13:13) Night Gas at Dixon, MT

(14:04) Night Gas at Perma, MT

(15:58) Night Gas at Plains, MT

(17:22) Coal Train WB at Plains, MT

(19:16) Intermodal WB at Plains, MT

(23:10) Coal Train WB at Plains, MT

(24:38) Day Gas at Weeksville, MT

(25:55) Day Gas at Thompson Falls, MT

(27:33) Day Gas at Paradise, MT

(28:56) M LAUMIS WB at Jens, MT

(29:45) Coal Train WB at Garrison, MT

(32:09) M MISLAU EB at Garrison, MT

(37:28) Grain train WB at Terry, MT

(39:20) Coal empties WB at Bismarck, ND

(41:06) Outro

Music:

Intro Music: MSTS Orient Express Piano

Outro Music: LPU 11.0 - Soundtrack

[westernrailfan]

Wow awesome video Jdog I really like the mac on that first eastbound manifest and the nice horn show and that spot at that barn is also really cool and that night gas was awesome too i love that crisp K5LLA horn and I can't believe that hi-rail truck was following so close behind that train also pretty cool coal train too bad those trucks got in the way and then wow I can't believe you caught the n&WW heritage unit that's pretty rare and nice execution mac on the train behind that too and that was pretty cool seeing the essential heritage unit engine on that gas locality train and neat that you saw both of them together on another train too but too bad it was trailing oh well anyway awesome video keep it up

[RevKev]

Nice video, we are heading out from Michigan this summer (August 2023) to capture the MRL from Billings to Missoula.

[westernrails]

Beautiful footage! I'm going to have the opportunity to see some freight over Bozeman in a few weeks, and was wondering if you know when the M-MISLUA or M-LAUMIS comes through the area. Thanks!