Missoula County Commission Chair Dave Strohmaier leads discussion to bring back Montana’s southern rail travel

Dave Strohmaier, Missoula County Commission Chair  is continuing his decade-long pursuit of bringing rail service back to the southern portion of the state, this time by forging a coalition of counties interested in seeing the locomotives pass through their areas of the state once again.

State Rep. Andrea Olsen, D-Missoula, passed a bill in the 2019 Legislature calling on the state to study the whole inventory of transportation options in Montana, including passenger rail, but for now the effort has been sidelined by the Interim Transportation Committee.

MATT NEUMAN [email protected]