The Great Northern Railway played a pivotal role in shaping Montana’s history.Opening the West, building communities, and ...

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 ...

A committee out of the U.S. House of Representatives are looking at making some serious cuts to transportation funds. The House Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development wants to ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Eastern Montana residents will weigh in this week on a proposed 83-mile coal railroad with the potential to usher in a dramatic expansion of mining in the state and increase ...

Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series. Montana is known for trout fishing and Glacier National Park, but perhaps less known and just as important to the state's identity is its railroad ...

Tucked away in a narrow valley of northern Gallatin County, Maudlow stands as one of Montana's most evocative remnants of the railroad era. Weathered wooden structures and rusted tracks tell stories ...

Since 2020, Class I railroads have acquired more than 3,000 miles of trackage from short line and regional carrier—some of which they previously owned. On March 31, 2020, Montana’s Kalispell Branch ...

The analysis revealed a recurring cycle of industry opposition, FRA inaction, congressional capitulation and tragedy.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, ...

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