Flooding Backs Up 36 Montana Rail Link Trains

Three dozen freight trains were backed up across the state on Montana Rail Link lines Thursday, in a flood-induced gridlock that will take a week to unlock. Most of the backlog was due to ravaged Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks in Southeastern Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, but the main focus is on tracks in the Yellowstone River Valley. MRL's main line runs between Sandpoint, Idaho, and Huntley, east of Billings. BNSF controls lines from huntley into north dakota, and wyoming. BNSF's Kevin Kaufmann details the flooding