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

Southern Montana’s passenger rail agency is pushing for a new route through major Montana cities. Even if they overcome ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — Located between Helena and Missoula, Deer Lodge has been an important place for rail travel for generations. Although, a few close calls between cars and trains has led to renewed ...

The Western Montana Railroad Historical Association is working to create a highly detailed model of the western part of the state. Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points ...

HELENA — Two wildlife conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway over delays in finalizing a plan to reduce the number of federally protected grizzly bears that are killed by trains ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Eastern Montana residents will weigh in this week on a proposed 83-mile coal railroad with the potential to usher in a dramatic expansion of mining in the state and increase ...

Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series. Montana is known for trout fishing and Glacier National Park, but perhaps less known and just as important to the state's identity is its railroad ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmental regulators are moving to end a years-long cleanup along dozens of miles of railroad in two northwestern Montana communities where lung-damaging asbestos from mining has ...

Oh, 13 trains rumbled by a whitewashed marker on the spot of the driving of the last spike of the Northern Pacific Railroad on Sept. 8, 1883. But even that was light. Twenty is par for the Montana ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two wildlife ...