The Yellowstone Valley Railroad (reporting mark YSVR) is a 171-mile (275 km) shortline railroad in northeastern Montana, also crossing into North Dakota.
It operates two branch lines leased from the BNSF Railway in 2005 - Snowden to Glendive and Bainville to Scobey - connected by trackage rights over BNSF's Northern Transcon between Snowden and Bainville.
The other line was built as a pair of branch lines connecting Sidney to the GN at Snowden and the Northern Pacific Railway (NP) at Glendive.
The Snowden-Sidney piece was completed by the Montana Eastern Railway, a GN subsidiary, in 1915,[1] and the remainder by the NP in 1912.
[2] Effective August 15, 2005, the YSVR leased both of these lines from the BNSF Railway, successor to the GN and NP.