Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Industrialist Dennis Washington always will be known here in Bobcat country as the guy who built ...

MISSOULA (AP) - Montana Rail Link has bought 16 new diesel locomotives to replace engines ranging in age from 32 years to 51 years old. "Our other locomotives were worth probably $400,000 at the most, ...

BUTTE - A decision may be made within a week on a Montana Rail Link proposal to put six locomotives on Montana Resources' idled mine site to generate electricity, a railway official said Tuesday.

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 ...

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 ...

Machinist Justin "Bamm-Bamm" Fieye works on one of the massive alternators on a locomotive at Montana Rail Link's Livingston Diesel Shop. Fieye has been working for MRL for 11 years and is a fourth ...