Local effort develops to save Amtrak service

The revitalized Save Amtrak organization wants help from people on the Hi-Line to keep the Empire Builder running through Montana.

"Save Amtrak is you guys, not me," Jerry Smith said at a meeting Monday. " Tell me what you want Save Amtrak to do."

Representatives of city and county governments and Chambers of Commerce, legislators and residents along the Hi-Line route of the Empire Builder came to an organizational meeting at the Triangle Telephone Cooperative hospitality room. More than 50 people heard an update about Amtrak and listened to representatives of U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Conr...