Hiawatha rail line to be part of federal study
Officials are confident that the long-defunct Amtrak line that once snaked through Montana’s southern tier en route to the West Coast will be part of a forthcoming federal study into discontinued intercity passenger rail lines — an important step in the mission to restore Amtrak service between the state’s most populous cities.
Dave Strohmaier, a Missoula County commissioner and chair of the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority — which seeks to establish a regional passenger rail authority in southern Montana — has been at the forefront of the effort to restore the North Coast Hiawatha line, which connected Chicago to Seattle via Billings, Butte and Missoula until 1979...
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