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Posted by Joe V on Mon Jan 25 19:42:28 2021, in response to Re: Amtrak in Southern Montana?, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Jan 25 18:57:15 2021. The MILW extension was a mistake and redundant (much like the Erie was west of Youngstown to Chicago and most of the Rock Island), though MILW tended to put their Division Points in small towns, which was good for their economies.Parts of it in Washington State were better engineered than the NP. BNSF later regretted selling the NP to the MRL. They did take buy back the route via Yakima, once used by Amtrak. Overall, the NP had more population along it, and the NCH and EB had about equal ridership per train, and that was when Greyhound ran 4 times a day between Chicago and Seattle. I rode portions of it in the 1980's and 1990's, and some of their buses ran in 2 sections in Montana. Under Jefferson Lines between Minneapolis and Spokane, it is fragmented mess with 1 or 2 buses a day. If Amtrak ran on it today, it would run via Helena, not Butte, since part of that line was severed, just as the UP now is through downtown Boise. Senator Thune of SD is pro-Amtrak. While Amtrak would never run through his state, it would not be as far from Aberdeen on the old NP. |
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