With a BNSF Dash 9 leading three EMD's, a loaded westbound coal train cruises across the Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision on a snowy spring day. The train is crossing over the Yellowstone River... (more)

It doesn't get much better than a pair of SD40's passing the fall colors of a grove of Cottonwood trees along the Yellowstone River. It had been over 20 years since I'd done anything with MRL, bu... (more)

Under threatening skies, the engineer of MRLs ‘Bozeman Bullet’ has the throttle open on MRL 263 as they blast through Reed Point, Montana

MRL 263 flies past the abandon grain elevator at Reed Point. with a stormy sky in the background

MRL's M LAULAU1 06 departs the west end of Reed Point, MT.

M LAULAU1 06 departs the west end of Reed Point with 51 cars for Bozeman in tow.

MRL 4407 leads the LAUMIS Westbound under Blue Skies on August 19th, 2022.

MRL LAUBOZ crosses the Yellowstone River in Reed Point, MT with a trio of SD40’s.

A detouring Extra Fresno-Pasco manifest heads west through Reed Point.

A loaded coal train heads through Reed Point with a Dash 9 leading the way.

Pulled out of helper service, a greasy 4305 leads the 4407 as the ML rips through the Reed Point curves towards Laurel.

As a large thunderstorm marches east, Montana Rail Link’s Bozeman turn passes the old wooden grain elevators still located at Reed Point, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2019.

After all these years the Farmers and Occidental Grain elevators still stand in Reed Point.

Reed Point relics
A BNSF coal train pounds westward through Reed Point, Montana, on the afternoon of June 24, 2017. Two wooden relics from another era still stand here, unlike many of Mo... (more)

LM stretches out in the early parts of the long trip to Helena as it approaches Reed Point.