Montana Rail Link is a short-line railroad headquartered in Missoula and owned by billionaire Dennis Washington’s Washington Companies. Texas-based BNSF, one of the nation’s “Big 4” railroads, is ...
Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...