In Rural Montana, a Hope That Biden Will Reopen the Rails [New York Times]
Date: 24/01/2021
Deer Lodge, Montana. For nearly a century, passenger trains rumbled three times weekly through this broad, grass-rich mountain valley in central Montana, home to more cattle than people, until Amtrak pulled the plug on the North Coast Hiawatha in 1979.
But with a new president known as Amtrak Joe and Democratic control of both houses of Congress, a dozen counties across the sparsely populated state are hoping that a return to passenger train service through the cities of Billings, Bozeman, Helena and Missoula, and whistle stops like Deer Lodge in between, is closer than it has been in four decades.
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The North Coast Hiawatha hasnt run through Montana since 1979. Now cities like Billings, Bozeman, Helena and Missoula are hoping that Amtrak Joe will help fund new rail service.
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