At 32,500 miles of track, the 176-year old company known now as Burlington Northern Santa Fe could run a railroad line around ...

A new investigation finds railroad bridge safety across the U.S. is hamstrung by minimal government oversight and limited ...

by Michael Hoge A Milwaukee Road railroad bridge crossing over the Clark Fork River near Tarkio, Montana is just one of many reminders of the long-gone tracks, and is shown on Sept. 16, 2023.

Federal officials approved a waiver allowing BNSF to reduce inspections on a couple of areas of its more than 30,000-mile (48,000-kilometer) network after the railroad successfully tested the ...

This includes over $100 billion that railroads have spent in the past four years alone on the people, technology, equipment and infrastructure that link Montana to global markets and have given ...

The North Coast Hiawatha hasn’t run through Montana since 1979. Now cities like Billings, Bozeman, Helena and Missoula are hoping that “Amtrak Joe” will help fund new rail service.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration awarded $8.2 billion to passenger rail projects across the country, and two Montana proj ...

In Montana, there is a direct railroad connection between the transportation revolution of the 19th century and the homestead era of the 20th. This is that story.

The railroad – now owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – hauled asbestos-tainted vermiculite from a nearby mine through Libby, Montana, over decades.

HELENA, Mont.—Montana’s oversight of railroad safety falls short at a time when crude-oil train traffic from the Bakken region, already high, is only expected to increase, a new audit found.