By , Montana Standard; August 3, 2018
BNSF Railway has agreed to pay the U.S. government $200,000 and spend up to $750,000 on road repairs to settle claims that the company failed to pay for damage caused by a 2011 train derailment in northwestern Montana, government prosecutors and a railroad representative said Friday.
The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought against the Fort Worth, Texas, railway last year over a derailment of 18 cars from a train hauling wheat about 50 miles west of Whitefish.
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