"North Coast Limited pt 2: The Rockies" DVD from Sunday River Productions
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- MORE: www.sundayriver... For 400 Miles from Bozeman to Pasco you'll be engulfed by Montana's highest mountains: a westbound trip in Summer and Eastbound in February. Both East and Westbound over the Butte Short line in summer. You'll climb every 2.2% grade at least twice: Butte Hill, Evaro, and Mullan Pass. You'll follow the Northern Pacific from the headwaters of the Missouri to the Columbia and catch up with Lewis and Clark along the way.
was so lukcy as a youngster to have ridden the NCL with my grandma to go visit the cousins in Bozeman in the '60s and then again late '70s as a railroad dependent to ride the Amtrak North Coast Hiawatha for going to college at Montana State ... rode it one last time in the Fall of '79 was so sad to see it go by the way side ... what's even more sad is to see to this day the once majestic Northern Pacific station in Bozeman vacant and in a state of neglect ... it is actually a unique piece of NoPac architecture in that it was custom designed to help pacify the concerns and anger of the Bozeman city fathers and local commerce over the railroads building of the expanded yard and facilities as well as an even more stellar terminal on the other side of the pass in Livingston .. both IMHO should be preserved and used ... FYI the Bozeman station is featured in the movie 'A River Runs Through it' in the scenes when 'buster' comes to town and wants to fish :-D
thanks for sharing this great video........as a little kid, I remember seeing the North Coast Limited in Fargo North Dakota.....we lived in Winnipeg MB and my parents to took us on a weekend road trip down to Fargo ND......as a kid I loved trains & still remember seeing this beautiful train.....my dad had a kodak 8mm. movie camera, and somewhere I have a scratchy video of the train leaving the downtown area of Fargo
(somewhere in North Dakota, that was me, thanks for noticing)
I rode that green thing in the sixties. You would love it.
Hey Kenny in your opinion, which route was more scenic? The route of the Empire Builder or the route of the North Coast Limited.
It's shame that Amtrak's Northcoast Hiawatha was discontinued during the Carter Administration. I realize the Passenger Line to Butte is currently out of service, though. This is the most scenic part of the run. I guess scenery down not sell in this era of instant gratification.
as the son of a railroad employee I was able to use my dependents card to ride Amtrak from St Louis via Chicago and on to Bozeman on the North Coast Hiawatha to attend college ... as a kid I spent summer vacations in Bozeman with family and had the opportunity on occasion to ride the NCL with my grandma (some of my fondest travel memories) The 'Hiawatha' was cancelled while I was still in college at MSU so ya I missed that $25 one way train ticket but keep in mind it wasn't so much Carter as it was public pressure to reduce government spending to recoup ballooning debt and deficits post-Vietnam and that train at the end was bringing back $6 million a year in revenues for the $24 million being spent to keep it running ... in the late '70s population density in Montana was less than one person per square mile and it was pretty much NoDak and MT folks riding that train ... I remember the contrast of riding the NCL in the '60s having to wait for a seat in the Vista Domes or the dining car and in the '70s had your choice of seats anywhere. I rode one of the last trains heading out for Fall Semester in '79 and spent the last day on the train talking to a conductor who had worked the No Pac days and we reminisced about how he had likely been working trains I rode on as a kid. Passenger trains were waning even pre-WWII and my dad used to say the happiest day in railroading was the day the railroads 'lost' the US Postal contract and were released from having to provide revenue losing passenger service in the US. Until we have the political will for a dedicated passenger rail service it will remain as it is ... subsidies for highways and subsidies for money losing regional airports and air routes but no money for trains.