BNSF Railway Company announced it intends to spend $105 million this year on making improvements to its operations in Montana.
Most will be spent on planned maintenance such as replacing and upgrading rail, rail ties and ballast.
The $105 million is on top of the $800 million BNSF has spent in the past five years in expanding and maintaining its network in the state.
This year, the maintenance program in Montana includes more than 840 miles of track surfacing and/or undercutting work as well as the replacement of about 55 miles of rail and close to 110,000 ties.
The 2019 planned capital investments in the state are part of BNSF’s $3.57 billion network-wide capital expenditure program announced earlier this month. These investments include roughly $2.47 billion to replace and maintain core network and related assets, approximately $760 million on expansion and efficiency projects and about $340 million for freight cars and other equipment acquisitions