MISSOULA, Mont. – The Missoula Redevelopment Agency is seeking community input on potential changes to an eight-acre city-owned plot north of Montana Rail Link Park. An open house event will ...

Montana Rail Link cover. Thirty-seven years ago, Montana businessman Dennis Washington entered into a 60-year lease with Burlington Northern for nearly 1,000 miles of ex-Northern Pacific Railway ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – As the legislative session wrapped up, discussions around passenger rail in Montana continue to be a major focus. House Bill 848, aimed at providing funding for regional ...

HELENA — The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority will likely not see state funding from this session. House Bill 848, which would have taken $2 million from the railroad car tax and directed it to ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – The Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA) and the City of Missoula are set to discuss the future of the land north of Montana Rail Link Park in a public workshop setting.

Montana’s U.S. Route 2: An eastbound BNSF grain train rolls across the spectacular bridge over Two Medicine River at East Glacier, Mont. This bridge can be photographed from U.S. Highway 2. Tom ...

More passenger rail through Montana isn’t just a hope and a dream, it’s a plan that’s chugging its way to reality, according to a report this week from the Big Sky Rail Authority. And ...

Railroading is a team effort, and since 1987, BNSF and Montana Rail Link (MRL) have been operating in collaboration across the Big Sky state and portions of Idaho and Washington. During the time that ...

The PSC had requested two additional rail inspectors during the Montana Legislature. It was a request the Montana lawmakers turned down.

In a statement, Montana Rail Link said that "both substances solidify rapidly when exposed to cooler temperatures." The bridge collapse with the train in the river.

Montana Rail Link will be responsible for all cleanup costs, CEO Joe Racicot told a news conference. Sixteen cars derailed, and 10 of them ended up in the river downstream from Yellowstone ...

Montana Rail Link is developing a cleanup plan and is working with its unions and BNSF Railway to reroute freight trains in the area to limit disruption of the supply chain, Beth Archer, a ...