About Montana Rail Link

All About Montana Rail Link

BASED IN MISSOULA, Montana Rail Link (MRL) is a Class II regional railroad that operates over 900 route miles of track in Montana and Idaho and employs nearly 1,100 dedicated professionals. MRL services over 150 local Montana businesses and moves their products to domestic and international markets on a daily basis. MRL remains committed to providing transportation services that result in long-term growth and prosperity for the company, and its customers and employees. MRL professionals live by the values of Safety, Trust, Accountability, Respect and Teamwork.
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MONTANA RAIL LINK AT A GLANCE

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Route Miles
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1,100
Employees
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$127.8 M
Annual Payroll
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$12.3 M
Property Taxes Paid
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$67.2 M
Goods / Services Purchased

The Green Choice

FUN FACT: if just 10% of long-haul freight now being moved by truck moved by rail instead, national fuel savings would exceed one billion gallons a year and annual greenhouse gas emissions would drop by more than 12 million tons. That’s equivalent to taking 2 million cars off the road or planting 280 million trees.

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Fuel efficient state-of-the-art green locomotives
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Average number of miles a freight train can move a ton of freight on a single gallon of fuel
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Number of times railroads are, on average, more fuel efficient than trucks
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Number of truck loads a single freight train can take off the road, equivalent to 1,100 cars

DID YOU KNOW railroads have a “common carrier” obligation to carry hazardous materials. That means that, unlike all other modes of transportation, railroads are required by the federal government to transport these materials.

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