(Source: Billings Gazette, May 29, 2013)
BILLINGS, Mont. — For 20 years, Central Montana Railroad was an economic engine for an 87-mile stretch of track that Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway wouldn’t service. Then two years ago this month, floodwaters stirred the normally lazy Judith River into a rampage, which twisted and slumped the CMR’s main trestle. Grain trains haven’t rolled across the damaged line for two harvests. Today, representatives of the U.S. Economic Development Administration are expected to provide $4 million in Disaster Relief Opportunity funds to the railroad.
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