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Jason Stuart is the vice chair of the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority. I caught up with him prior to the start of the Greater Northwest Passenger Rail Summit happening now in Billings.

If the Southern Route returns, these places would be perfect for a train station.

The Empire Builder was in route to Portland/Seattle when 8 cars derailed near Joplin, Montana which is just south of the Canadian boarder, yesterday around 4 pm according to CNN.

There has been some momentum of this train to come back through the southern part of Montana.

An accident between an Amtrak passenger train and a John Deere sprayer tractor earlier today (Friday 5/29), has reportedly killed one man in Bainville, Montana.

If you’ve never been on either mode of transportation would you rather fly at 35,000 feet at the speed of sound, or 125 miles an hour on a speeding train?

Passengers who rode on Amtrak’s northeast regional train No. 171 last Wednesday  may have been exposed to the measles. Virginia health officials issued the alert after a foreign visitor came down with the highly contagious illness.