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Rail Service

Series: Remember When | Story 10

Remembering rail services from the past. Remember some of the elementary classes in the Glasgow school used to get to take a train trip to Malta, which for many students would be their first train trip in their lives. I do not remember how they returned home, just maybe there was a passenger train that headed to Glasgow a little later in the day.

Or how about those of you that got to make trips to Great Falls by train. My mom and sisters traveled the train to Kansas City several times so I do have many memories of dining cars, Conductors, and even Red Caps, but the best memory was getting to ride in the engine of the passenger train going from Opheim to Scobey.

Yes, that is a memory from the past and I do not remember when rail service for that area ceased, but I am sure it was a sad time for the community,

 

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