On the morning of July 2, 2017, an eastbound BNSF grain train follows the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, Montana. The train is passing Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension bridge over the river that once also passed over MRL’s main line. It is also the location of the ghost town of Lombard, where at one time both Milwaukee and Northern Pacific had depots here, as well as an interchange track between the two. The isolated place had all the usual trappings of a normal town—a general store, a post office (closed in 1957), a school and a hotel, as well as plenty of dwellings for all the railroaders that once worked there.
