Montana Rail Link

Railroads helped build the state we know today. Now, rail travel has all but disappeared in Montana, and many unused lines are going dormant or being abandoned. What happens to them next?

Nearly two dozen property owners near Paradise filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging the River Road East Fire was started by a railcar. The fire burned a little over 17,000 acres near Paradise and destroyed around 15 homes in August.

Authorities say a lot of work remains after train cars containing asphalt, molten sulfur and metal derailed in Stillwater County Saturday morning and fell into the Yellowstone River.

Montana environmental officials announced on Friday they have completed clean-up on state-owned lands within the 300-square-mile Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site. Train traffic has resumed along the Clark Fork River near Paradise following a derailment last weekend.

Workers Monday continued efforts to clean up train cars that derailed and crashed into the Clark Fork River near Paradise over the weekend.

Cleanup crews were on the scene of a train derailment today near the Trail Creek Road exit off I-90 between Bozeman and Livingston. An estimated 40…

About 30 coal cars in a Montana Rail Link freight train derailed this weekend along the Clark Fork River in northwestern Montana.MRL spokesman Joe Lewis…

HELENA - About 10 people testified Wednesday for a bill that would create a task force to help communities prepare for and respond to incidents involving…

Remediation specialists are trying to contain a 7,000 gallon diesel spill in the Missoula rail yard.Montana Rail Link detected the spill on Monday and…

A freight train plowed into a herd of elk just outside of East Helena late Wednesday night, killing at least 23 animals. Montana Rail Link called state…