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The Hi-Line is a railroad in Montana running between Havre and Whitefish.It serves as a portion of the BNSF Railway Northern Transcon. [1] Originally the mainline of the Great Northern Railway, [2] the Hi-Line name has its origins in the railroad line being the northernmost transcontinental railway line in the United States.
1,198.8 miles (1,929.3 km) of the Interstate Highway System, which serve as a thoroughfare for long-distance road journeys, is contained within Montana, and all of these are maintained by the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT). Speed limits are generally 80 mph (130 km/h) in rural areas and 65 mph (105 km/h) in urban areas.
Construction work on the Montana Railroad began in 1895 at Lombard, a station on the Northern Pacific Railway 53 miles east of Helena. The Montana Railroad route proceeded eastward from Lombard up Sixteen Mile Canyon towards the mining districts of the Castle Mountains, in southeastern Meagher County. The railroad reached Leadborough, at the ...
Located in the Helena National Forest, the pass is thirteen miles (20 km) west of the city of Helena. The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) used the pass for its line from Logan to Garrison via Helena, built in 1883. This line was the NP's primary freight route and was also used by their secondary passenger train, the Mainstreeter.
I-15, 20 miles (32 km) south of Dillon, Montana I-15 (foreground left to right) goes through the city of Great Falls, MT. I-15 crosses into Montana from Idaho just south of Lima Reservoir over Monida Pass, at 6,870 feet (2,090 m), the highest elevation on the entire route of I-15. [2] The route continues northwest through farmland and desert.
Great Falls and Canada Railway: GN: 1889 1901 Montana and Great Northern Railway: Great Falls Terminal Railway: MILW: 1912 1914 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Great Falls and Teton County Railway: GN: 1912 1914 Great Northern Railway: Great Northern Railway: GN GN 1890 1970 Burlington Northern Inc. Helena, Boulder Valley and Butte ...
To the west of Spokane, WA (at Latah Jct, as of June 1973 [11] to the present day [12]), the line splits into two main routes, [12] one using mostly the old Great Northern Railway route directly to Seattle, WA, and the other using mainly the former Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway route, but also a large section of the former Northern ...
At the northern end of the byway near Armington, US 89 joints US 87, Montana Highway 3 (MT 3), and MT 200; the four-route concurrency travels northwest for 22.7 miles (36.5 km) to Great Falls. As it travels through Great Falls along 10th Avenue South, US 87 branches north at 14th Street South, I-15 Business joins the route at 6th Street South ...