Turning our Stories into Action

September 8 - 10, 2025

The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority invites you to its 2025 Annual Conference, where public, private, and non-profit leaders from the Great Lakes to the Pacific will launch the nation’s largest economic and community development project in over 50 years: the creation of high-performance rail and connecting services on the 2,300+ mile Big Sky North Coast Corridor.

This majestic route crosses the headwaters of the nation’s largest rivers, climbs its most scenic mountain ranges and rests on incredible coasts at either end. Along the way it will connect 21 metropolitan areas, hundreds of smaller communities and dozens of Tribal nations. This huge project will create good-paying jobs and new business activity everywhere, expand access to health care, education, cultural and natural resources, and increase mobility in ways that expands hope, imagination, enterprise, and cooperation among the citizens of this region.

 This year’s theme, Turning our Stories into Action, focuses on participants setting this amazing project in motion by sharing experiences and ideas, developing strategies to advance the effort, and collaborating across sectors to develop the relationships needed to achieve success. The three-day conference will feature panel discussions, keynote speakers, regional and cross-border perspectives, and opportunities for making a difference for both the 25 million people of the Greater Northwest and the countless visitors to this region who will arrive by passenger rail.

Participants will accomplish all this in the spectacular setting of Livingston, Montana—iconic northern gateway to Yellowstone National Park.

Download the 2025 Conference Agenda