WANT TO RIDE A TRAIN ACROSS MONTANA?

Last week, Senator Jon Tester announced the BSPRA will be receiving $500,000 in Corridor Identification and Development or Corridor ID funds to study service restoration. That money comes through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tester says the money will help the Rail Authority collect the data to show the viability of restoring the "North Coast Hiawatha" route, to show there's a "need and that it can work."

"I think it can. The Old Hiawatha Route worked well before it was taken out," Tester noted. "I think there's an opportunity here to, once again, help with the economy. If they can take that money, and that planning grant, and really plan for it, it puts them in line, providing they do good work, and providing the need is there, it puts them in line to get that old route established." Read more.