Central Montana Rail
By Hope Good Central Montana Rail, Inc. is a short line railroad operating track in Judith Basin, Fergus, and Chouteau Counties. In 1985, a locally governed nonprofit corporation began operating [...]
Railroad Trestles
By Hope Good In addition to the many Montana bridges in use today, remnants of bridges from the past can still be seen across the landscape. Others exist only in old photographs and memories. [...]
Loco-Motion
Many brilliant minds paved the way for the invention of the locomotive. In the First Century, a Greek mathematician and engineer known as Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria published a description [...]
Structures Built for and by the Railroads
Among some of the most enduring architecture of the last century are structures that were built for and by the railroads. Everything from roundhouses and turntables to trestles and cooling towers [...]
Homesteads and Railroads
by Marie Hoyer President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862. Because of much confusion, controversy, and border disputes over land, steps had to be taken to reorganize the conflicts [...]
Shelby Railroads
by JB Chandler In 1890, progress came to North Central Montana on railroads, and from every direction. The Great Northern Railway was planned and plotted and heading west from Havre to eventually [...]
Railroading in Lewistown and Central Montana
By Jerry Hanley I’ve had a keen interest in railroads as far back as memory takes me. I came by it honestly as my father was a locomotive fireman and engineer for the Milwaukee Road from 1942 [...]
The First Northern Transcontinental Railroad
By Hope Good The building of the railway across the plains proved one of the most thrilling adventures enacted in America. It provided some of the most dramatic episodes in our rich history. More [...]