Montana Rail Link crews will spend Friday morning emptying the Bitterroot Valley of the last 156 empty coal railcars stored there for the past two years. “We ask that the public exercise caution when ...

MISSOULA — Montana Rail Link has furloughed 36 operating employees in the past couple of weeks and the Missoula-based railroad anticipates that number will continue to climb. “Volume’s down and coal ...

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The Montana Rail Link era dawned bleak, long before the sun came up. There were 15 to 18 trains running just after midnight on Oct. 31, 1987, when the line changed hands from Burlington Northern to ...

MISSOULA — Missoula county officials have concluded that the death of a Montana Rail Link worker in a train collision was accidental. The Missoula County coroner's office identified the victim in ...

The number of freight trains loaded with coal that pass through Montana could significantly grow in the next several years, thanks to the planned development of new ports on the West Coast with an eye ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Redevelopment Agency is accepting public feedback to determine the future uses for 8 acres of city-owned land north of the Montana Rail Link Park on Johnson Street.