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All Aboard – Thirty years after Amtrak derailed the North Coast Hiawatha, Missoulians organize to get it back on track

April 24, 2009/

Warren McGee, a wily 95-year-old from Livingston who worked as a railroad conductor for 40 years, spoke up in a room of train buffs and offered his idea for how to revive passenger rail service in southern Montana.

“Maybe we should bring some of those old rails under the Endangered Species Act!” he hollered.

By: Matthew Frank

Full Story: http://www.missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=CF497111-14D1-1357-9C5CC475C003A23C

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