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RELEASE DATE – MAY 16, 2021
MONTANA RAILS - MOUNTAINS TO PRAIRIES
This 96-page full-color
6” x 9” soft cover book contains over 200 color photographs,
capturing images of trains from all corners of the State of Montana.
For nearly 150-years railroads have been transforming the Montana landscape
from the Continental Divide peaks to wind
swept prairies. Steel rails arrived
May 9, 1880 when the narrow-gauge Utah & Northern reached Monida Pass
south of Butte. At the zenith of rail line construction during the 1890s and
early 20th Century,
all major transcontinental railroadscrisscrossed Montana; the Union
Pacific, Northern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy [CB&Q], Great
Northern, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul [Milwaukee Road] and the Soo
Line.Through the years, many original railroads
evolved into the Burlington Northern Railroad,Burlington Northern Santa Fe [BNSF]
and Montana Rail Link with unique shortlines along the way. Though routes
and operations have changed, the scenery of the Big Sky State remain
the same.
Take a journey across Montana rails, from
the mountains to the prairies.
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