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 ...

As global coal giants prepare to meet escalating energy demand in Asia, one straight shot to market from the heart of coal country cuts right through Missoula. Since roughly 2000, coal has been a ...

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 ...

BROADVIEW — Developers of a reactivated coal mine in south-central Montana said Wednesday they expect to start shipping fuel next week to Midwestern power plants along a new 35-mile rail line. The ...

Activists have protested coal trains coming through Missoula. The many projects that coal money support here are another matter. Coal is the source of the Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund, ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Sponsors of a proposed railroad that would open Montana’s huge coal reserves to new mining must turn over documents about the project’s economics to a conservation group that’s ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - An empty Montana Rail Link coal train heading east near Clinton ran into a steel culvert filled with rocks Thursday evening. The train engineer told investigators it looked like a ...

To a certain degree, a thriving Montana Rail Link means a strong Missoula. In 2010, the rail company paid $8.9 million in property taxes to the state of Montana, and $1.5 million to Missoula County.

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 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. • Owners of a proposed railroad serving southeastern Montana's coal fields have applied to the federal government to build an 83-mile line carrying up to 20 million tons of fuel ...