BOZEMAN, Mont. - Montana Rail Link officials stood before commissioners to talk about train traffic through town, and how it's increasing. "Our volume is going to grow" said Jim Lewis with the MRL.

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 ...

You’ve probably heard all the arguments against the proposed expansion of coal production. Dozens more traffic-stopping trains on the rails across Puget Sound. The potential environmental impact. On ...

WEST OF NOXON — It must have been a horrific crash that rattled the August Sunday night in extreme western Montana. By daylight on Monday, Aug. 14, the wreckage of a train and the spillage of 31 ...

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 ...

In 1928, the Northern Pacific went shopping for a locomotive that could eliminate doubleheading on the eastern end of its ...

A recent letter to the editor proclaimed a variety of inaccuracies regarding the anticipated impacts from coal trains traveling through Montana. The letter proclaimed that “multinational corporations ...

EVERETT, Wash. – The Seattle company that wants to build a coal train terminal in Bellingham says the trains will still pass through Washington on their way to Canada even if three proposed Washington ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - The Missoula City Council passed a resolution Monday night asking the Army Corps of Engineers to study the environmental impact of increased coal traffic through the city. Councilman ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a ...

Have you heard about the plans to develop one of the largest coal export facilities on the continent at Cherry Point? This is located about 15 miles northwest of Bellingham. What could this mean for ...