River Wire Blog

Good News!

BNSF Railway is removing about a third of the rail cars that have scarred the landscape from Great Falls to the Wolf Creek Canyon for the past three years.

The cars have been sitting idle within plain view of what is certainly one of the most scenic stretches of Interstate highway in the nation.

That the railroad has sufficient business demand to need the cars bodes well for the nation's economy.



The Great Falls-to-Wolf Creek stretch was chosen as a storage yard because a washout on the track in the Ulm area has rendered the line useless for through traffic.

BNSF this week started putting more than a thousand of the parked cars back online to handle shipping. Within the next few weeks about half of the cars in the Wolf Creek Canyon will have been removed.

Yahoo!