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Montana residents onboard with train service

May 27, 2009 /

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The Bozeman City Commission meeting room couldn’t hold all the people wanting an update on passenger trains possibly coming back to southern Montana n with the crowd spilling out into the hall and gathering around a TV broadcast of the meeting.

That conformed to what an Amtrak official called “the groundswell that seems to be developing for passenger rail,” a mode of transportation that has taken a backseat to private auto and air in recent decades in the United States.

But Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. http://tester.senate.gov/ , who organized the town hall meeting Tuesday, said the results of an ongoing feasibility study of more passenger trains in Montana will be the first step in what might be a long effort to bring rail travel back to Bozeman and Livingston.

By DANIEL PERSON Chronicle Staff Writer

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